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There is nothing as boring as the truth.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
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...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
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You are thirty minutes late. Yes. Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral? No. Why not, pray tell? Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
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The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.
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I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
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But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.
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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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great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.
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The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for.
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
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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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since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
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The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
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I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover. ~ Falsely yours
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