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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love
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We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
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I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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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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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
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and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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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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