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There were always men looking ...

There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some

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She was desperate and she was ...

She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

That's the way it ends. The th...

That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

it is good to be sitting some ...

it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

great writers are indecent peo...

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.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

we know God is dead, they've t...

we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.

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your letters got sadder. your ...

your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I'm going, she said. I love yo...

I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

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I thought you were sane,' I s...

I thought you were sane,' I said, 'but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

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mercy, I think, doesn't the hu...

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

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it doesn't matter if Prince Ch...

it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.

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stay with the beer. beer is co...

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

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I was only kidding about the h...

I was only kidding about the hundred,' she says. oh,' I say, 'what will it cost me?' she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look,' I say, 'I don't think I can ever pay that price again.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

there's no chance at all: we a...

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.

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she is no longer the beautiful...

she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?

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but right now it's Bob Dylan B...

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

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soon I'll finish this 5th of P...

soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m., be back in my room by 2, stretched on the bed, waiting for the phone to ring, not answering, my holiday is an evasion, mt reasoning is not.

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the masses are everywhere they...

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

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I hope that death contains les...

I hope that death contains less than this.

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I have a face like a washrag. ...

I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....