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Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.

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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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there's no defense except all the errors made
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My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
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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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don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.
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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring with you. What you must do, with money and the poor, is never let them get too close to one another.
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