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To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Accomplishment Entirely Life Myself Only Seems Wasted Worthy

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Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Caught Disease Glad Me Sometimes Writing

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It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Begin Fail Lie Make Order Poem Simply You Yourself

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Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Ageless Editor Eternal Put Thing Up Writers Wrong

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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: About Away Beautiful Better Even Feel Further Great Human Human Race Miles Race Them Though Thousand Thousand Miles Two Write I Feel I Write

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Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

~Charles Bukowski

Topics: Been Life Literature Those Who Writing

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: August 16th, 1920

Died: March 9th, 1994

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