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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
Charles Bukowski
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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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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
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one more creature dizzy with love
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
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I'm only interested in poetry.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
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Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
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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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The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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Only the boring get bored
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We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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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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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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