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Charles Bukowski

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when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.


— Charles Bukowski


#love

your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men are killers and your worst men are selling them bullets


— Charles Bukowski


#men

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.


— Charles Bukowski


#humor

The whole world is a sack of shit ripping open. I can´t save it.


— Charles Bukowski


#humor

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.


— Charles Bukowski


#time

I don't hate people. I just feel better when they aren't around.


— Charles Bukowski


#misanthropy #people

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.


— Charles Bukowski


#love

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.


— Charles Bukowski


#solitude #women

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.


— Charles Bukowski


#making-do #humor

Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.


— Charles Bukowski


#nothing






About Charles Bukowski

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Did you know about Charles Bukowski?

This play was a one-off performance. I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. He was then 49 years old.

In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". His writing was influenced by the social cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.

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