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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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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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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.
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People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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