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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
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I have no time for things that have no soul.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work!
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.
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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
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I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
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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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we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
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The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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American women drove hard bargains and the ended up looking the worst for it. The few natural American women left were mostly in Texas and Louisiana.
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Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
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Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
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