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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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Henry Charles Bukowski
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.
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You don't go on probably when love and guns are in hand.
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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
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Belane, are you nuts? Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
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It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
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Life's as kind as you let it be.
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Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
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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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Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!
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Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.
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