Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist and short story writer.
The reason we have classified our selection of Charles Bukowski’s quotes as cynical will be obvious when you read them.
Bukovski lived in Los Angeles, and his writings were influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city.
His work focused on the daily lives of ordinary Americans, the act of writing, relationships with women, and the dull boredom of a regular job. One of the themes he returned to frequently was alcohol, which he consumed in copious amounts.
Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over sixty books. Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, “the secret of Bukowski’s appeal… [is that] he combines the confessional poet’s promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.”
Bukowski died of leukemia in 1994, aged 73. The funeral rites, orchestrated by his widow, were conducted by Buddhist monks.
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Otherwise you will have to form your opinions of Charles Bukowski according to these quotes:
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
I don’t like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
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.
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Never get out of bed before noon.
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
We have wasted history like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
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