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she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
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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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
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I wanted the whole world or nothing.
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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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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
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That's your response to everything: drink? No, that's my response to nothing.
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I am this fiery snail crawling home.
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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
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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?
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