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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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Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
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It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
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News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
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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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there's no defense except all the errors made
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It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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as the spirit wanes the form appears
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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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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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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
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Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.
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Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
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