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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us.
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The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
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some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
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I've never met another man I'd rather be.
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
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and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?
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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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