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I hope that death contains less than this.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.
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If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
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Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
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be it peace or happiness let it enfold you
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This incompleteness is all we have.
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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