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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
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I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
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if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it.
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I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
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It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
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I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.
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I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.
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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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I am a poem. There is no way out.
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I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.
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It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.
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I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
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it's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with.
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Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned.
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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be it peace or happiness let it enfold you
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If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
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