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Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994 / Andernach / Germany)
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Charles Bukowski, born in 1920, began writing at a young age and was first published in the 1940s. Then Bukowksi gave up writing for the world of work .. more >>
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  ''If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.''
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), U.S. author, poet. Notes From a Dirty Old Man (1969).
 
  ''The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how—usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.''
Charles Bukowski (b. 1920), U.S. author, poet. "Notes on the Pest," Tales of Ordinary Madness (1967).
 
  The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual a...
Charles Bukowski (b. 1920), U.S. author, poet. "The Big Pot Game," Tales of Ordinary Madness (1967).
 
  ''You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.''
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), U.S. author, poet. "Too Sensitive," Tales of Ordinary Madness (1967).
 
  ''Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.''
Charles Bukowski (b. 1920), U.S. author, poet. "Too Sensitive," Tales of Ordinary Madness (1967).

 
 
 
 
 
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