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Charles Bukowski Quotes: All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
         

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.


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Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.



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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.



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Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.



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