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That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
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 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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As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
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I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
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I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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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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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.
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Sundays kill more people than bombs.
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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day
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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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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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