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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
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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 don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
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Are you becoming what you've always hated?
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.
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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
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