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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
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Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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one more creature dizzy with love
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
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