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Charles Bukowski

You will encounter many men and women like Bukowski. Genius souls who if living during a different time period would have blossomed. Because of time & place they are trapped and forced to endure a troubled fate. They are misplaced living in a world they can not relate to. Drugs and drinking are away to escape, helps them better cope with reality.

Charles Bukowski was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles.

“I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.”

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Henry David Thoreau

“Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined”

“Think for yourself, or others will think for you without thinking of you.”

“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.”

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”

“All good things are wild and free.”

Charles Bukowski

“I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.”

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”