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But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
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That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh
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