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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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They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
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...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
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If you let them kill you, they will
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The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
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We are here to laugh at the odds.
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.
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don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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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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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.
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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.
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