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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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hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
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They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
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They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
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as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
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Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
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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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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead men without eyes, men without voices men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
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If you let them kill you, they will
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.
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