Bad luck for the young poet would be a rich father, an early marriage, an early success or the ability to do anything well.
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Other Charles Bukowski quotes:
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on.
Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
You can't beat death, but you can beat death in life.
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
I've never met another man I'd rather be.
