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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
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Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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the sea is made of blood
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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