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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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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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I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
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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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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
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Let' em learn or let' em die
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The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.
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I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
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The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.
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Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead men without eyes, men without voices men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.
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we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.
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the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.
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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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In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
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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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... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
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It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
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