American - Author | August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994
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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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
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In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
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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.
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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.
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I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
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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.
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