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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

~Charles Bukowski

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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

~Charles Bukowski

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Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: 'Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don't you realize that?' They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn't want to enter their minds.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Any Boss Come Early Enough Enter Fellow Foolish Going Here Hey Job Just Lay Like Look Me Minds Moment Off Posing Quite Realize Something Sometimes Speak Us Want Workers Would You Young

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Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

~Charles Bukowski

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I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulation of wordage, a more flowing concept, in a hope for a more new and lively path. I do personalize at times, but this only for the grace and elan of the dance.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Blind Careful Concept Dance Falling Flowing Grace Hope Lively More New Only Out Path Poems Rather Times Will Worked

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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Bodies Course Crowd Cuts Exact Expect Feel Front Knife Make More Right Souls Still Turn Who Will Women You

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If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: About Bad Badly Because Blacks Censorship Complain Dogs Even Good Homosexuals Males Many Met Need Only Say Were White Who Women Write You I Write

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My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

~Charles Bukowski

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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don't even know I'm working on. It's a free lunch. A free dinner. I don't know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Blank Continue Dinner Down Easier Even Every Far Free Free Lunch Gives Going How Know Long Lunch Me Mind Night Nothing Only Plan Sit Than Things Third Type Typewriter Working Writing

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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

~Charles Bukowski

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 16th, 1920

Died: March 9th, 1994

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