Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer known for his raw and gritty writing style that often drew from his own experiences of poverty and life in Los Angeles.

"She slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone."
Charles Bukowski
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
Charles Bukowski
"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence."
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"Women were beyond me.They saw somethingdepraved.There was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.That was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New Orleans."
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"The cat is the beautiful devil."
Charles Bukowski
"When women agree with me I always do the other thing."
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"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people."
Charles Bukowski
"Without literature, life is hell."
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