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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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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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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've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
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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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why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)
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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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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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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.
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There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
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I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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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.
Charles Bukowski
