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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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Henry Charles Bukowski
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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 mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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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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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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They were beautiful nothings
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If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
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sometimes I hate you, she said.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
Charles Bukowski
