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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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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
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Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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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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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
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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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So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
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