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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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The Artist, an ancient sage had once said, is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
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For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.
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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.
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I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
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I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.
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Love breaks my bones and I laugh
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