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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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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.
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It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
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I feel no grief for being called something which I am not in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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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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Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
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A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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