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Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer.

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Fiction is an improvement on life

Fiction, Improvement, Life

We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

Ask, Happiness, Littles, Pain

Something that never happens anywhere at any time.

Anywhere, Happens, Love, Time, Time Love

and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea.

Back, Color, Eye, Gone, Sea

Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.

Days, Face, Faces, Firsts, Four, Nothing

Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.

Living, Typewriter, Typewriters

Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.

Bad, Bad Jokes, Death, Jokes, Lasts, Littles

I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

Asking, Down, Magic, Poison

I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again. Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

Alleys, Drunk, Like, Read, Used

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

Hope, Men, Old, Papa, Revolt, Revolution

my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.

Edge, Envelopes, War, Wine, World

the sea is made of blood

Blood, Made, Sea

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

Dying, Happenings, Stopped, War, Wars

I've never met another man I'd rather be.

Another Man, Man, Men, Met, Mets

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

Bad, Bad Woman, Bad Writing, Like, Women, Writing

There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!

Army, Good, Noble, War, Wars

You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.

Everything, Know, Knows, Rebel, Survive, Tired

I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

Ideas, Notebook, Store, Think, Thinking

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

Human, Kids, Looked, Mean, Voice

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

Fit, Moment, Night, People, Sleep, Streets

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