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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

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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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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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