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Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.
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But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.
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We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.
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I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
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it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
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Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
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… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
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If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
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It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
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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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places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.
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I've never met another man I'd rather be.
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Drink from the well of yourself and begin again.
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