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I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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Never get out of bed before noon.
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I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again.
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I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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