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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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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
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