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Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you I am old when it is fashionable to be young I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
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