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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.
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 wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
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…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
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The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.
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It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead men without eyes, men without voices men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
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