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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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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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It's just that the grape has me down.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
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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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Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
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and love is a word used too much and much too soon.
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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This incompleteness is all we have.
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Our disappointment sits between us.
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Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.
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When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.
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beware those quick to praise for they need praise in return beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know beware those who seek constant crowds for they are nothing alone beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average
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I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
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I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
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To create art means to be crazy alone forever.
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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