take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the si…

Charles Bukowski
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take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning
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Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have. ✨ Charles Bukowski (1978). Women
Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2001). Ham On Rye, p.61, Canongate Books
It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). Women: A Novel, p.30, Harper Collins
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