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5 Charles Bukowski Quotes That Teach you How to Live, Create, and Find Your Purpose
Every time I read Bukowski, I have several moments where I have that nervous chuckle because he says these phrases that cut straight through the bullshit. They’re so jarring, irreverent, hilarious, and brutally honest at the same time.
If you’re not familiar with Bukowski, he’s the quintessential average joe, piece of garbage, nobody type of human being.
He has an alcohol problem. He worked in dead-end jobs, mainly the post office, for the majority of his adult life. Then, he became a famous writer, still an alcoholic, and went on to tell stories of his tenuous relationship with fame, women, and everything in between.
Growing up his parents abused him, kids bullied him, girls hated him. With a face full of scarring, puss-filled ance, he learned to become an observer of life as most people didn’t want to actually interact with him.
He’s a pervert, a prophet, a misogynist, a poet, a degenerate, a lost soul looking for love, a simultaneously aimless and erudite asshole philosopher.
Either you’ll love his work or you’ll hate it.
He uses vulgar and graphic language, but at the same time, you’ll see extreme poignance in his words.
