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hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but I still was nothing but arms and ears and eyes and maybe there'd be either some good luck for me or more death tomorrow.
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Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness and 2 more: youth and beauty
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And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.
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Beware of those who seek constant crowds they are nothing alone.
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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
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The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
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The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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