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Let' em learn or let' em die

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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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 never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
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purple does something strange to me
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky if not, green grass.
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I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.
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That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
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What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well as he can within what he has set out to do and a madman does exceptionally well at what he can't help doing.
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the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
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The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
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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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I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories
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I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.
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I knew it would be you
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the people are the biggest horror show on earth, have been for centuries.
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I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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