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But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.
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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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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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I knew it would be you
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Life's as kind as you let it be.
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The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
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There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!
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my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
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People do too much. They say too much.
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
Charles Bukowski
Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
Charles Bukowski
