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• they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

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  Deep Thought, Self Control, Important

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• there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say "no.

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  Brain, Demand, Way

  Charles Bukowski, “The Crunch”

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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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  Games, Might, Toys

  Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). “Absence of the Hero”, p.65, City Lights Books

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• I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

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  Book, Great Book, Interest

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• It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

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  Mad, Stills, Scrap

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• God is a lonely place without steak.

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  Lonely, Lonely Places, Steak

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.233, Canongate Books

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• of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

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  Eight, Ninety, Hundred

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• There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and all that...but I'm not the book, see? I'm the guy who wrote it, but I don't want them to come up and throw roses on me or anything. I want them to let me breathe.

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  Nice, Book, People

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• 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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  Song, White, Forever

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• this time has finished me.

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  Finished

  Charles Bukowski, “The Retreat”

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• I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.

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  Men, Names, Found

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• 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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  Mass, Sane, Know How

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• 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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  Morning, Holiday, Phones

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• Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

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  Ejaculation, Ordinary, Exhibitions

  1972 Title of book.

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

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  Bob, Way, Dylan

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• The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

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  Pests, Baths, Bores

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.175, City Lights Books

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• I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body, but there is no chance, my god, no chance. rat with rat dog with dog hog with hog, play the piano drunk listen to the drunk piano, realize the myth of mercy stand still as even a child's voice snarls and we have not been fooled, it was only that we wanted to believe.

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  Dog, Children, Believe

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• Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

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  People, Waiting, Complaining

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• but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

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  Coffee, Thinking, Together

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.225, Zondervan

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• Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

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  Moral, Human Experience, Grounded

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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• Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

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  Animal, Talking, Soul

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• there's no defense except all the errors made

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  Errors, Defense, Made

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• I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

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  Girl, Children, Nice

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• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

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  Cities, Feelings, Guilty

  Charles Bukowski, “Young In New Orleans”

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• there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. sitting up in my bed the lights out, hearing the outside sounds, lifting my cheap bottle of wine, letting the warmth of the grape enter me as I heard the rats moving about the room, I preferred them to humans. being lost, being crazy maybe is not so bad if you can be that way undisturbed. New Orleans gave me that. nobody ever called my name.

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  Crazy, Moving, Wine

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