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If you want to create, you'll create.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
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Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it
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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.
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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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