“I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job”
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Follows the path of the author's alter-ego Henry Chinaski through the high school years of acne and rejection and into the beginning of a long and successful career in alcoholism. This novel begins against the backdrop of an America devastated by the Depression and takes the Chinaski legend up to the bombing of Pearl Harbour.
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Charles Bukowski
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“I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job”
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
“All right, God, say that You are really there. You have put me in this fix. You want to test me. Suppose I test You? Suppose I say that You are not there? You've given me a supreme test with...”
“Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be say...”
“You could sit in there all day drinking coffee and they never asked you to leave no matter how bad you looked. They just asked the bums not to bring their wine and drink it there. Places lik...”