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

Grounded, Human Experience, Moral, Morals, Restrictive

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

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

Cat, Drunk, Hold, Influenced, Looks, Understand

You have my soul and I have your money

Money, My Soul, Soul

When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.

Hermit, Hermits, Hot, Meets, Woman

We use such big words to move nowhere.

Bigs, Move, Moving, Nowhere, Use

Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.

Begin, Begin Again, Drink, Wells

The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.

Easy, Gone, Kindness, Somehow, World

stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.

Beer, Blood, Drinking, Lover, Stay

You are thirty minutes late. " "Yes. " "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No. " "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.

Funeral, Tell, Thirty, Why Not, Would Be

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Lies, Long, Long Ago, Lying, Silence

God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.

Fads, God, Hip, Lasts, Perhaps, Too Much

Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.

Empowerment, Inspirational, Knowledge, Success, Worse

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Distance, Points, Two, Unbearable

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

Coffee, Good, Look, Thing, Thinking, Together

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Machinery, Should Have, Things, Treated, Women

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

Argument, Dirty, Dramatics, Exchange, Laundry, Screaming

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Courage To Love, Hated, Love, Taken

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

Bad, Beginning, Ends, Middle, Years

It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?

Believe, Father, Hard, Mother

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