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Well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get youCharles Bukowski
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Writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at allCharles Bukowski
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Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.Charles Bukowski
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Great books are the ones we needCharles Bukowski
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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.Charles Bukowski
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I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.Charles Bukowski
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Women were beyond me.they saw somethingdepraved.there was one waitressa little older than I, she rather smiled, lingered when shebrought mycoffee.that was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New OrleansCharles Bukowski
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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.Charles Bukowski
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Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get alongCharles Bukowski
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I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had breadCharles Bukowski
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People see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.Charles Bukowski
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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 worseCharles Bukowski