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Find what you love and let it kill you.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.
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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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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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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.
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There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.
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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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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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this time has finished me.
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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
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I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
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if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.
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i dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.
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