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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.
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I hope that death contains less than this.
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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
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whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
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Something that never happens anywhere at any time.
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