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I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

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 was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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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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When you clean up a city, you destroy it.
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It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
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Only the boring get bored
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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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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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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 dunno, i said, but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
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