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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
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You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
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It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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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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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
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I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
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what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
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