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We work too hard. We try too hard.
Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. It’s been looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb.
There’s been too much direction. It’s all free, we needn’t be told.
Classes? Classes are for asses.
” —Bukowski’s only writing advice? “Don’t try.” A fine addition to our running list of writing advice from literary greats. (via explore-blog)
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Buk is watching you!
(Taken at Canal St. Martin in Paris)
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Best section of my bookshelf. #bukowski #poetry #books (Taken with instagram)
“There is no such thing as beauty, especially in the human face… what we call the physiognomy. It’s all a mathematical and imagined alignment of features. Like, if the nose doesn’t stick out too much, the sides are in fashion, if the earlobes aren’t too large, if the hair is long… It’s kind of a mirage of generalization. People think of certain faces as beautiful, but, truly, in the final measure, they are not. It’s a mathematical equation of zero. “True beauty” comes, of course, of character. Not through how the eyebrows are shaped.” — Charles Bukowski, on beauty (via cherrypies)
Charles Bukowski
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Live Reading, City Lights Poets Theater, San Francisco, September 14, 1973
“Life’s as kind as you let it be.” — from Charles Bukowski’s A Favor for Don. (via gokiburi)
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even more reason bukowski is my favourite.