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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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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
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I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
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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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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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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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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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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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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
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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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You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
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Love is a Dog from Hell.
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Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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