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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 had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.
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Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
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I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.
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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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I have no time for things that have no soul.
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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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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness.
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Each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face.
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An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.
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stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
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Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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