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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
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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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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
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Complaint is often the result of an insufficient ability to live within the obvious restrictions of this god damned cage.
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I write right off the typer. I call it my machinegun. I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.
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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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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
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Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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