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Charles Bukowski

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

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"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."

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Amber Hurdle

"Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is how we bring about our own damnation, you know-by ignoring the voice that begs us to stop. To stop while there's still time."

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Amber Hurdle

"I have wished a bird would fly away,And not sing by my house all day;Have clapped my hands at him from the doorWhen it seemed as if I could bear no more.The fault must partly have been in me.The bird was not to blame for his keys.And of course there must be something wrongIn waiting to silence any song."

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Amber Hurdle

"I wanted to say goodbye to someone, and have someone say goodbye to me. The goodbyes we speak and the goodbyes we hear are the goodbyes that tell us we re still alive."

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Amber Hurdle

"He could not say goodbye to these three rooms as he could to a house he had loved: hotel rooms accepted departures emotionlessly."

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Amber Hurdle

"I changed it. I had to. Do you know why?" She studied him, her eyes grave. "Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."

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Amber Hurdle

"She could smell damprot, high, sweet, and cloying. She could smell madness like dead vegetables in a dark cellar."

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Amber Hurdle

"That- we seemed to have decided without saying a word- might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy."

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Amber Hurdle

"How does it happen that a writer who's not even very good - and I can say that, I've read four or five of his books - gets to be in charge of the world's destiny? Or of the entire universe's?"If he's not very good, why didn't you stop at one?"Mrs. Tassenbaum smiled. "TouchA©. He is readable, I'll give him that - tells a good story..."

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Amber Hurdle

"He is talking to people in Toronto, trying to find out if I am guilty; but he won't find it out that way. He doesn't understand yet that guilt comes to you not from the things you've done, but from the things that other have done for you."

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"People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed."
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"I think I need a drink.''Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
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"I remember yoursaying: "make itor break it."neither happened anditwon't."
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"I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions."
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