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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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this time has finished me.
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Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
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The world is full of boring, identical and mindless people.
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and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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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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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.
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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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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
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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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Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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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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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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I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.
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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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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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