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What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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Are you becoming what you've always hated?
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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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mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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