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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
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I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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