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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
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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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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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It’s never quite right, all the things we are taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we die, all the lives we live.
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I've never met another man I'd rather be.
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the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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dogs and angels are not very far apart
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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.
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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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well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!
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