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Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Poet and writer, born monday august 16, 1920 in Andernach (Germany), died wednesday march 9, 1994 in San Pedro, Los Angeles, California (United States)
You can find this author also in Poems, in Humor and in Novels.
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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. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.
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    There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.
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      They run as if they had a fire under their backsides seeking for something they can't find.
      It's basically fear of facing oneself,
      it's basically fear of being alone.
      Instead I fear the crowd...
      Charles Bukowski
      Written on monday october 24, 2011
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        You're so fucking corny. It's obvious you have to feel something, it's innate. If you stay there thinking about it too much you'll start thinking it's love. Have you seen wht happens to men that love? They lose love and then they're left with fuck at all.
        Charles Bukowski
        Written on tuesday october 4, 2011
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