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Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn. (Charles Bukowski)
I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me. View quote
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one more creature dizzy with love. View quote
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Do you hate people?” "I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around. View quote
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh. View quote
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I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them. View quote
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You have to die a few times before you can really live. View quote
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I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me. View quote
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I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed. View quote
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I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. View quote
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she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty. (Charles Bukowski)
and love is a word used too much and much too soon. View quote
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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. View quote
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we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams. View quote
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There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you. View quote
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. View quote
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each man's hell is in a different place: mine is just up and behind my ruined face. View quote
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if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete. View quote
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the tigers have found me and I do not care. View quote
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nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing. View quote
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He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. (Charles Bukowski)
Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days and months ahead of feeling absolutely terrible and nothing can change that; neither new girlfriends, health professionals, changes of diet, dope, humility, or God. View quote
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to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs. View quote
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they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things. View quote
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I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown. View quote
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