Charles bukowski work quote
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Charles Bukowski > Quotes
“I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt awful -- awful beyond all -- but inom never felt that one other individ could enter that room and cure what was bothering meor that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness fryst vatten something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude. It's being at a party, or at a etapp full of people cheering for something, that inom might feel loneliness. I'll quote Ibsen, "The strongest men are the most alone." I've never thought, "Well, some beautiful blonde will komma in here and give me a fuck-job, rub my balls, and I'll feel good." No, that won't help. You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. dum people mingling with dum people. Let them stupidify themselves
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Bukowski and work
His problem was with work as a thing, as a way to spend (i.e., waste) your life.
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Agreed. I think Bukowski viewed work as just another part of human existence. How a man spends his days is something Bukowski dwells on a lot, whether it’s drinking, playing the horses, writing, or cutting your toenails.
And I don’t think he necessarily viewed working in a factory to be any less demeaning or senseless than being a lawyer, college professor or Hollywood producer. They were equally irrational in his mind.
Mind you, some jobs are much easier than others and Bukowski was definitely grateful to escape the world of manual labor. He also felt fortunate to have some money in his pocket, having lived without it for a good part of his life.
But Bukowski didn’t even like the idea of viewing himself as a “professional” writer – someone who spends all day looking and acting like a writer while talking about writing. He’d rather go to the tr
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Written by Cole Schafer
December 9,
At the core of all good writing (and copywriting) is the sentence.
And, besides Hemingway, I can’t think of a better craftsman of the single sentence than the late indie poet and novelist, Charles Bukowski.
I picked up Bukowski for the very first time this year, beginning with arguably one of his most widely-read works, The Post Office.
(I wrote down my favorite line from it and the other twenty-five books I’ve read so far this year, here).
Two, maybe three pages in, I felt like slapping myself in the face –– I couldn’t fathom how I had spent so much time on this planet having never read him.
While his writing style was less polished than Hemingway’s, it had just as much punch and arguably more tenacity.
For the unfamiliar, reading Charles Bukowski is like going for a ride on a Honey Badger –– nothing is off-limits, nothing is too scary to write about and you never know what the hell he is goin