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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.
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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
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I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
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He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
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Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
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