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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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in the cupboard sits my bottle like a dwarf waiting to scratch out my prayers. I drink and cough like some idiot at a symphony, sunlight and maddened birds are everywhere, the phone rings gamboling its sound against the odds of the crooked sea I drink deeply and evenly now, I drink to paradise and death and the lie of love.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.
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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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all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
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There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
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If you let them kill you, they will
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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
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Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
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sometimes I hate you, she said.
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I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it
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