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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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Henry Charles Bukowski
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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.
Charles Bukowski
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
Charles Bukowski
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.
Charles Bukowski
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
this time has finished me.
Charles Bukowski
human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
Charles Bukowski
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
Charles Bukowski
I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
Charles Bukowski
You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired.
Charles Bukowski
I don’t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone.
Charles Bukowski
Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.
Charles Bukowski
He asked, what makes a man a writer? well, I said, it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump off a bridge. writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. are you desperate? I don't know.
Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
Charles Bukowski
This incompleteness is all we have.
Charles Bukowski
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
Charles Bukowski
There is nothing as boring as the truth.
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
Charles Bukowski
