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

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.
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The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.
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writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
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a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
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there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity.
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Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.
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too often, the only escape is sleep
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
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What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love.
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The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.
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my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile? and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw
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The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.
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The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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