Charles Bukowskiauthor profile |
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| born | August 16, 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| died | March 09, 1994 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| gender | male | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Andernach, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| website | http://www.harpercollins.com/authors/1297/Charles_Bukowski/index.aspx?authorID=1297 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| genre | Literature & Fiction, Poetry | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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about this author
Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years. He published his first story in 1944, when he was twenty-four, and began writing poetry at the age of thirty-five. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp (1994). |
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books by Charles Bukowskicombine editionsavg rating: 3.98 | 21893 ratings | 195 distinct works
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quotes by Charles Bukowski
""Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around." "
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)
"I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around." "
— Charles Bukowski (The Movie: Barfly)
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski
— Charles Bukowski
"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski
— Charles Bukowski