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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.
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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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