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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
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 was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. 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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I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
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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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some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.
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Before my death I hope to obtain my life.
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing.
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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
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there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
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Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
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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.
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the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
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Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.
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one more creature dizzy with love
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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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I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
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and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
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