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When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: About Because Cliches Done Keep Learned Love Magazine Many Modern Plots Poems Slang Small Spring Style Think Worked Write Writers Writing Written

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I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Bad Because Cardboard Chewing Felt Good Including Kept Like Shakespeare Those Were Writing

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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

Topics: Because Best Chose Ears Everything Fingernails Hope Mad No Hope Stuffed Works Writing You Your

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Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Anywhere Force Generally Generation His Writer Years Ahead

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Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Done Friends Much Natural Politics Publishing Stupidity Through

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I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Belly Dementia Getting Much Now Pot Write

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I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Alive Definite How Largely Magic Matter Stay Talent Trade

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What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lonely-heart poetry readings I have dodged, is beside the point. A man's soul or lack of it will be evident with what he can carve upon a white sheet of paper.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Beside Carve Character Evident He How Jails Lack Man Many Paper Poetry Point Readings Sheet Soul Walls White Will

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I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Automobiles Conversations Faces Feet Heads Human Human Race Like Race

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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

~Charles Bukowski

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 16th, 1920

Died: March 9th, 1994

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