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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I feel no grief for being called something which I am not in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
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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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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
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…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
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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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I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.
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I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh
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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've never met another man I'd rather be.
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.
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I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
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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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