Tag: Charles Bukowski
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When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don’t mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It’s the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.
Charles Bukowski
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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.
Charles Bukowski
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The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski
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We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski
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When everything works best, it’s not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It’s when you’re mad with it, it’s when it’s stuffed in your ears, your nostrils, under your fingernails. It’s when there’s no hope but that.
Charles Bukowski
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We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski
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The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
Charles Bukowski
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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.
Charles Bukowski
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Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, ‘Don’t try.’ That fits the writing, too. I don’t try; I just type.
Charles Bukowski
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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don’t want it smoothed out.
Charles Bukowski