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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
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They never pay the slaves enough so they can get free, just enough so they can stay alive and come back to work.
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I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.
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To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
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