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I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Am Because Bum Bums Laws Like Morals Relax Religions Rules Shaped Society I Am I Can

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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Artist Continually Days Downs Liar Life Light Lights Mentioned My Life Never Only Other Seen Then Up Would Wrote Years

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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Life Married Single Single Life Wife Would

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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Back Bar Bunch Dice Drunks History Like Local Men Shooting Wasted

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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Cat Love Love Is Moment Quiet Same Sitting

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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Only Photograph See Words Work Writer I See

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I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Boy Broken Desperate Explosions Full Good Good Job Interest Job Like Me Men Minds Surprises Teeth Ways

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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Basically Because Feel Feel Good Free Good Know Near Rare See Soul Them Very You

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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Crazy Go Horrible Live Lives Must Never People Some Some People Truly

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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Got Know Left Lose Losing Soul Still Then You Your

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 16th, 1920

Died: March 9th, 1994

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