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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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as the spirit wanes the form appears
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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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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There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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