Tag: Charles Bukowski
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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Charles Bukowski
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Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
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Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.
Charles Bukowski
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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.
Charles Bukowski
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We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
Charles Bukowski
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Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles Bukowski
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I used to live on one candy bar a day – it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.
Charles Bukowski
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
Charles Bukowski
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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.
Charles Bukowski
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The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski