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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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We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
Charles Bukowski
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.
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It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
Charles Bukowski
Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.
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that your power of command with simple language was one of the magnificent things of our century. (from the poem: result)
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I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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Only the boring get bored
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Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?
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we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
Charles Bukowski
The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.
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