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I am a poem. There is no way out.

Charles Bukowski

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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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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