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Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
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from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.
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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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