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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.
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Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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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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WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
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I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
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…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
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More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
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