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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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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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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds they are nothing alone.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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