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she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.
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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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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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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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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
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I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
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all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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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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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
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