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Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
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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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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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You don't go on probably when love and guns are in hand.
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With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt.
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eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
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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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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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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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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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