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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
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I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.
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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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To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
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They were beautiful nothings
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You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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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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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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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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The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.
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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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