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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
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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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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
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I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
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People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
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Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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