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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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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.
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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
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Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
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Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
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Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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