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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.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner.
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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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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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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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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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I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
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