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Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Charles Bukowski was writer from the United States
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Get Charles's Quotes“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”— Charles Bukowski
Title poem of his posthumous 1999 collection, written in his final years in San Pedro while battling leukemia and reflecting on a life of hard labor and drinking.
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Bukowski died on March 9, 1994, from leukemia in San Pedro, Los Angeles. He was 73. His headstone reads: Don't try. He sold millions of books, especially in Europe, where he was loved more than in America. The man who spent ten years drinking instead of writing became one of the most-read poets of the 20th century.
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