Tag: Charles Bukowski
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When I write, when I’m going hot, I don’t want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you’re pushing it.
Charles Bukowski
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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can’t write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the ‘i’s’ small.
Charles Bukowski
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Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.
Charles Bukowski
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Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski
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Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.
Charles Bukowski
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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.
Charles Bukowski
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The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
Charles Bukowski
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I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
Charles Bukowski
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The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Charles Bukowski
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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man’s soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.
Charles Bukowski