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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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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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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
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Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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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.
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They were beautiful nothings
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i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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