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Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
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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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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
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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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Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
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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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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
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I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
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This incompleteness is all we have.
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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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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.
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