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magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it
Charles Bukowski
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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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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.
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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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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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I hope that death contains less than this.
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.
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I am a dolt of a man, easily made happy or even stupidly happy almost without cause and left alone I am mostly content.
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A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.
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I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.
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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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I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
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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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