"...the best writers are the ones who were on the sidelines during their youth, observers, not fawned-over popular doers. Not the prom king and queen, not the quarterback throwing the winning pass at the big game, but the timid or the brutish losers and outcasts who spent their high school years invisible or shunned."

~ Paul Clayton

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Charles Bukowski: The icon of dirty realism. He crafted a legacy from the grit of marginalized life, stripping away pretense to expose reality in its rawest form. Through his alter ego Henry Chinaski, he navigated fame, carnal honesty, and emotional void. His "Don't Try" philosophy remains a stark reminder: true authenticity only emerges when we stop performing for others.

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Reflexión. Charles Bukowski

La tristeza es causada por la inteligencia. Cuanto más entiendes ciertas cosas, más desearías no comprenderlas.

Charles Bukowski

Zum Tag: Der einzigartige Charles #Bukowski † 9. März 1994.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Bukowski

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Chinaski

»Barfly« haben wir noch auf VHS.

In 1969, publisher John Martin offered to pay Charles Bukowski $100 each and every month for the rest of his life, on one condition: that he quit his job at the post office and become a full-time writer. The 49-year-old Bukowski did exactly that, and just weeks after leaving work finished writing his first book, Post Office, a semiautobiographical story in which Bukowski’s fictional alter ego, Henry Chinaski, muddles through life as an employee of the US Postal Service. It was published by Martin’s Black Sparrow Press in 1971. 15 years later, Bukowski wrote a letter to Martin and spoke of his joy at having escaped full-time employment.

(🫡 Had to cut the text of the letter Bukowski sent to Martin. Just ran out of space here, for some reason.)

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