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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 I never see you again I will always carry you inside outside on my fingertips and at brain edges and in centers centers of what I am of what remains.
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I feel strangely normal.
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.
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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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Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
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There still might be a place for us somewhere.
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A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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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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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
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