“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”
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Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994).
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Charles Bukowski
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“if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.”
“the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever”
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good t...”
“I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
“alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the...”
“in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck”
“I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.”