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People just weren't interestin...

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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As a recluse I couldn't bear t...

As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

When I was young I was depress...

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

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But then if you lied to a man ...

But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly.

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I think I need a drink.' 'Almo...

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

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Of course, there would always ...

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The Artist,' an ancient sage ...

The Artist,' an ancient sage had once said, 'is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The writer has no responsibili...

The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.

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Pretty words, as pretty women,...

Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.

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Don't fight your demons. Your ...

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

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Knowledge is knowing as little...

Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.

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... to die on a kitchen floor ...

... 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.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The streets were full of insan...

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

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Hell, I'd even failed with wom...

Hell, I'd even failed with women. Three wives. Nothing really wrong each time. It all got destroyed by petty bickering. Railing about nothing. Getting pissed-off over anything and everything. Day by day, year by year, grinding. Instead of helping each other you just sliced away, picked at this or that. Goading. Endless goading. It became a cheap contest. And once you got into it, it became habitual. You couldn't seem to get out. You almost didn't want to get out. And then you did get out. All the way.

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A man needed somebody. There w...

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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An artist is a man who says a ...

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

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I knew it would be you...

I knew it would be you

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Now something so sad has hold ...

Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.

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But she projected vitality - y...

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

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Careful poetry and careful peo...

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

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