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How are his poems? He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do? Catch butterflies
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To me Art (poetry) is a continuous and continuing process and that when a man fails to write good poetry he fails to live fully or well.
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There is nothing as boring as the truth.
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Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
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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.
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i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
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When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
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Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted
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I was a man who thrived on solitude without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
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Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
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I write right off the typer. I call it my machinegun. I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.
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