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too often, the only escape is sleep
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
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I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, crazy. But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.
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Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It’s awful. Goodnight.
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I never understood society. i undersand that it works somehow and that it functions as a reality and that its realities are necessary to keep us from worse realities. but all i sense are that are plenty of police and jails and judges and laws and that what is meant to protect me is breaking me down.
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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say no.
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh
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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
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Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
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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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You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late
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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
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That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
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