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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
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.
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I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
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People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
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The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
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one more creature dizzy with love
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More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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