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	<title>Comments on: 6 Things I Learned from Charles Bukowski</title>
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		<title>By: Bassimer</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bassimer]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jan 2015 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hubert Selby Jr  &quot;Last Exit to Brooklyn&quot;]]></description>
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		<title>By: CW Crane</title>
		<link>http://www.jamesaltucher.com/2011/10/6-things-i-learned-from-charles-bukowski/#comment-47133</link>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[CW Crane]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 19:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished writing my second novel which is much different than the first. I&#039;d been reading Bukowski and his honesty - so honest the words disappear - made me think I&#039;d been doing it all wrong.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I just finished writing my second novel which is much different than the first. I&#8217;d been reading Bukowski and his honesty &#8211; so honest the words disappear &#8211; made me think I&#8217;d been doing it all wrong.</p>
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		<title>By: Miro</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Miro]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2014 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#039;t open your blog. It&#039;s saying that only invited readers can open it]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I can&#8217;t open your blog. It&#8217;s saying that only invited readers can open it</p>
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		<title>By: Ian</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 17:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Miller is a pompous writer in love with the epic, pretentious asshole, also he is dead. Completely unreadable, caused yawns of suicidal proportions across the libraries of the world by young minds trying to find fun and excitement, responsible with other pompous pretentious asshole writers for the death of reading. Just awful. Hey let us read Miller instead of doing let me think of, hmmm, actually everything sounds more fun than reading bullshit. 

Simple question. When you read him. Can you honestly say to yourself that you feel real life from his words, that you can relate, or are you afraid of being ridiculed by the norm? Miller is for the become dentist, lawyer type of guys. For the might have made it but they are not so smart actually or strong, albeit they fix your teeth, they handle your divorce and they are educated, they have even documented proof to show the world. They are the people who lived next door and your idiot mother wanted for you to be just like them, so security road can kill you in the end. See, your mother wanted you to die in a horrible way. Eventually they took the road more traveled, the easier one. They are the crab that pulls down other crabs in the attempt to flee so they can become lobsters. Even lobsters get eaten. But they do not go down without a fight. Crabs are like crap, but with a p. Get it? Not likely. But hey, intellectuals dig him. Those crazy party going, life smelling, women fucking, universe travelers labeled him and granted entrance to the Kingdom of the Norm, the Kingdom of Universal Intellect. Rejoice, you are one of them. Not quite, you cannot even hang out with them. But you are a acolyte. You are assisting them to spread their bullshit and infect young minds so they would get bored with reading and continue refreshing their instagram feed. This doesn&#039;t even mean shit. It is a comment on a 3 year old post. In the end, Life, the great equalizer will deal with Miller, this comment, you and me, even James in the same fashion. All forgotten, Miller for the better, some of us for the worst.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Henry Miller is a pompous writer in love with the epic, pretentious asshole, also he is dead. Completely unreadable, caused yawns of suicidal proportions across the libraries of the world by young minds trying to find fun and excitement, responsible with other pompous pretentious asshole writers for the death of reading. Just awful. Hey let us read Miller instead of doing let me think of, hmmm, actually everything sounds more fun than reading bullshit. </p>
<p>Simple question. When you read him. Can you honestly say to yourself that you feel real life from his words, that you can relate, or are you afraid of being ridiculed by the norm? Miller is for the become dentist, lawyer type of guys. For the might have made it but they are not so smart actually or strong, albeit they fix your teeth, they handle your divorce and they are educated, they have even documented proof to show the world. They are the people who lived next door and your idiot mother wanted for you to be just like them, so security road can kill you in the end. See, your mother wanted you to die in a horrible way. Eventually they took the road more traveled, the easier one. They are the crab that pulls down other crabs in the attempt to flee so they can become lobsters. Even lobsters get eaten. But they do not go down without a fight. Crabs are like crap, but with a p. Get it? Not likely. But hey, intellectuals dig him. Those crazy party going, life smelling, women fucking, universe travelers labeled him and granted entrance to the Kingdom of the Norm, the Kingdom of Universal Intellect. Rejoice, you are one of them. Not quite, you cannot even hang out with them. But you are a acolyte. You are assisting them to spread their bullshit and infect young minds so they would get bored with reading and continue refreshing their instagram feed. This doesn&#8217;t even mean shit. It is a comment on a 3 year old post. In the end, Life, the great equalizer will deal with Miller, this comment, you and me, even James in the same fashion. All forgotten, Miller for the better, some of us for the worst.</p>
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		<title>By: Alexandra Carbone</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alexandra Carbone]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 04:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey, I really liked your blog entry. I wrote a similar one about why I like him, check it out :) http://www.smooloo.com/some-stuff-about-bukowski/]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, I really liked your blog entry. I wrote a similar one about why I like him, check it out :) <a href="http://www.smooloo.com/some-stuff-about-bukowski/" rel="nofollow">http://www.smooloo.com/some-stuff-about-bukowski/</a></p>
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		<title>By: Gaevska</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gaevska]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks! It s great article about incredible writter. i am so impressed by it and i hurry up to read his novels.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks! It s great article about incredible writter. i am so impressed by it and i hurry up to read his novels.</p>
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		<title>By: another young artistic women</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[another young artistic women]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2014 17:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bukowski was an asshole. I get that. I don&#039;t like everything he&#039;s written and most of the times it seemed he was just trying to piss people off by being as rude and foul as possible. But I get where he&#039;s coming from. For me it&#039;s not that I&#039;m influenced by Bukowski it&#039;s that sometimes I&#039;ll find a little diamond in his work. It will click in my head and it&#039;s as if I couldn&#039;t have said it better myself. What Can We Do? Lifedance? I love those. Sometimes when he decided not to be brutally honest in a foul way he showed something genius. It was in him. The same thing that&#039;s in me I guess. I can&#039;t do the foul, nitty gritty, unnecessary truth that he does, but I can do that honesty that&#039;s in What Can We Do? And shined through his walls when he talked about peoples death being a sham because there was nothing left to die. When he said stuff like &quot;Whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn&#039;t help the mind and isn&#039;t it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?&quot; In those moments I can relate to him and honestly I can&#039;t say I relate to many people. That means something to me. And that&#039;s why I like Bukowski. But I&#039;m not sure I&#039;d ever want to meet him. Sitting across the table from Bukowski would be much like staring into the sun I imagine. It&#039;d burn your eyes and could possibly make you go blind.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bukowski was an asshole. I get that. I don&#8217;t like everything he&#8217;s written and most of the times it seemed he was just trying to piss people off by being as rude and foul as possible. But I get where he&#8217;s coming from. For me it&#8217;s not that I&#8217;m influenced by Bukowski it&#8217;s that sometimes I&#8217;ll find a little diamond in his work. It will click in my head and it&#8217;s as if I couldn&#8217;t have said it better myself. What Can We Do? Lifedance? I love those. Sometimes when he decided not to be brutally honest in a foul way he showed something genius. It was in him. The same thing that&#8217;s in me I guess. I can&#8217;t do the foul, nitty gritty, unnecessary truth that he does, but I can do that honesty that&#8217;s in What Can We Do? And shined through his walls when he talked about peoples death being a sham because there was nothing left to die. When he said stuff like &#8220;Whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn&#8217;t help the mind and isn&#8217;t it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?&#8221; In those moments I can relate to him and honestly I can&#8217;t say I relate to many people. That means something to me. And that&#8217;s why I like Bukowski. But I&#8217;m not sure I&#8217;d ever want to meet him. Sitting across the table from Bukowski would be much like staring into the sun I imagine. It&#8217;d burn your eyes and could possibly make you go blind.</p>
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		<title>By: m.f.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[m.f.]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Please read One Wish Left by Tony Gloeggler--- It would change your mind about poetry. I&#039;ll reimburse yoiu the cost if you don&#039;t love it]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please read One Wish Left by Tony Gloeggler&#8212; It would change your mind about poetry. I&#8217;ll reimburse yoiu the cost if you don&#8217;t love it</p>
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		<title>By: A</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[A]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2014 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate Bukowski. I found this by typing &quot;I hate Bukowski&quot; into google... but honestly this was a great article. There are a lot of things you can learn form him even if he was a crappy writer (which I believe he was). Women was all about him being too drunk to &quot;come&quot; and him sleeping with ridiculously crazy people. If he really did write about his experiences, he certainly dated some real whackjobs. Lydia, the craziest one, took up a forth of the book on her own.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hate Bukowski. I found this by typing &#8220;I hate Bukowski&#8221; into google&#8230; but honestly this was a great article. There are a lot of things you can learn form him even if he was a crappy writer (which I believe he was). Women was all about him being too drunk to &#8220;come&#8221; and him sleeping with ridiculously crazy people. If he really did write about his experiences, he certainly dated some real whackjobs. Lydia, the craziest one, took up a forth of the book on her own.</p>
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		<title>By: heavynumber</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[heavynumber]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2014 22:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the unfortunate pleasure of knowing Charles Bukowski in the 80&#039;s.He was an egomaniacal,mysogynistic drunken sod.He thought his &quot;fame&quot; was &quot;the greatest joke on humanity since religion&quot;.He thought the fact that people were actually &quot;influenced&quot; by him and that young artistic women were drawn to him was an even better joke.we had a mutual hatred for each other.I knew what that POS really was and the only thing I can say about him is I&#039;m glad he&#039;s dead]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had the unfortunate pleasure of knowing Charles Bukowski in the 80&#8217;s.He was an egomaniacal,mysogynistic drunken sod.He thought his &#8220;fame&#8221; was &#8220;the greatest joke on humanity since religion&#8221;.He thought the fact that people were actually &#8220;influenced&#8221; by him and that young artistic women were drawn to him was an even better joke.we had a mutual hatred for each other.I knew what that POS really was and the only thing I can say about him is I&#8217;m glad he&#8217;s dead</p>
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