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Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
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 hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
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I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
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It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
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