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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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Henry Charles Bukowski
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
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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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I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.
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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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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.
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I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.
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People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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Find what you love and let it kill you.
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