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I'm only interested in poetry.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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Our disappointment sits between us.
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There's nothing unusual about love.
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
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