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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I hope that death contains less than this.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
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It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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be it peace or happiness let it enfold you
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