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To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
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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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A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.
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Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.
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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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...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
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sometimes I hate you, she said.
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The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.
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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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The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do.
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