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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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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
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I have no time for things that have no soul.
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.
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Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
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