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Charles Bukowski quotes: When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen. When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
Charles Bukowski quotes: In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting. In the old days,' he said, 'writers' lives were more interesting than their writing. Now-a-days neither their lives nor the writing is interesting.
Charles Bukowski quotes: We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.
Charles Bukowski quotes: It was going to be alright. At last. For a while. It was going to be alright. At last. For a while.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The secret is writing down one simple line after another. The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under. The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
Charles Bukowski quotes: That was love, that was bravery. Shit, who could really stand me? anyone who could stand me had a lot of forgiveness of soul. That was love, that was bravery. Shit, who could really stand me? anyone who could stand me had a lot of forgiveness of soul.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
Charles Bukowski quotes: This incompleteness is all we have. This incompleteness is all we have.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer I dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
Charles Bukowski quotes: I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that. I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.
Charles Bukowski quotes: We use such big words to move nowhere. We use such big words to move nowhere.
Charles Bukowski quotes: There's nothing unusual about love. There's nothing unusual about love.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything. Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.
Charles Bukowski quotes: People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water. People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar. I began counting each fool that passed me. I got up to 50 in two-and-one-half-minutes, then stepped into the next bar.
Charles Bukowski quotes: If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born. Then I was a young man a thousand years old, and now I am an old man waiting to be born.
Charles Bukowski quotes: She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something. She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street. I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't. I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The less I needed, the better I felt. The less I needed, the better I felt.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The laughter of the mutilated who still need love, and her blessed eyes run deep into her head like mountain springs far in and cool and good. The laughter of the mutilated who still need love, and her blessed eyes run deep into her head like mountain springs far in and cool and good.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I like to prowl ordinary placesand taste the people-from a distance. I like to prowl ordinary places
and taste the people-
from a distance.
Charles Bukowski quotes: do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto. Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous. I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning Take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning
Charles Bukowski quotes: I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages. I have met free man in the strangest of places and at ALL ages.
Charles Bukowski quotes: So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all. So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms. I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
Charles Bukowski quotes: They thought I had gutsthey were wrongI was only frightened ofmore important things They thought I had guts
they were wrong
I was only frightened of
more important things
Charles Bukowski quotes: and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned. and gamblers are dry and empty souls, their hearts have been sucked dry, there's no music in their walk, they are colorless and condemned.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead. I was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I didn't like the eight hour job. I didn't even like the four hour job, even though I couldn't get one. I didn't like the eight hour job. I didn't even like the four hour job, even though I couldn't get one.
Charles Bukowski quotes: To create art means to be crazy aloneforever. To create art means
to be crazy alone
forever.
Charles Bukowski quotes: To die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you. To die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you.
Charles Bukowski quotes: There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard
Charles Bukowski quotes: But isn't there alwaysone good thingto look back on?think ofhow many cups of coffee wedrank together. But isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?
think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.
Charles Bukowski quotes: When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great. I When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great. I
Charles Bukowski quotes: How can you be true and kind at the same time? how? How can you be true and kind at the same time? how?
Charles Bukowski quotes: She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it. She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.
Charles Bukowski quotes: It seemed better to delay thinking. It seemed better to delay thinking.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr. Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.
Charles Bukowski quotes: crawled like a blind slug into the web crawled like a blind slug into the
web
Charles Bukowski quotes: the sea is made of blood the sea is made of blood
Charles Bukowski quotes: It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning. It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey. I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it. Meanwhile the 3 a.m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The only time a man needed a lot of women was when none of them were any good. The only time a man needed a lot of women was when none of them were any good.
Charles Bukowski quotes: If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell. If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
Charles Bukowski quotes: You must some day die for nothingas Ihave lived. You must some day die for nothing
as I
have lived.
Charles Bukowski quotes: If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit. If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.
Charles Bukowski quotes: People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice. People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
Charles Bukowski quotes: My part of the game is that I must live the best I can. My part of the game is that I must live the best I can.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality. Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived. Love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
Charles Bukowski quotes: a poem is a city burning a poem is a city burning
Charles Bukowski quotes: That's your response to everything: drink?""No, that's my response to nothing. That's your response to everything: drink?"
"No, that's my response to nothing.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms I am going to start selling air in dark orange bags marked: moon-blooms
Charles Bukowski quotes: I got the sad sads and all I want to do is fuck you. I got the sad sads and all I want to do is fuck you.
Charles Bukowski quotes: She was consumed by 2 simple things:despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:youth and beauty She was consumed by 2 simple things:
despair, loneliness; and oh 2 more:
youth and beauty
Charles Bukowski quotes: The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy. The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.
Charles Bukowski quotes: You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey. You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
Charles Bukowski quotes: There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light butit beats the darkness. There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Angels,we have grown apart. Angels,
we have grown apart.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I feel no grief for being called somethingwhichI am not;in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a goodback rub I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
Charles Bukowski quotes: Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely. Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Love it or leave it Love it or leave it
Charles Bukowski quotes: My heart is a thousand years old. My heart is a thousand years old.
Charles Bukowski quotes: When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.""There are some real weirdos down there.""They're everywhere. When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row."
"There are some real weirdos down there."
"They're everywhere.
Charles Bukowski quotes: There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski quotes: Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter. Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.
Charles Bukowski quotes: It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink. It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I lost almost all the blood in my body in 1957 I lost almost all the blood in my body in 1957
Charles Bukowski quotes: Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
Charles Bukowski quotes: There are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds There are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
Charles Bukowski quotes: "she' mad but she'magic. there' no lie in her fire. "she' mad but she'
magic. there' no lie in her fire.
Charles Bukowski quotes: And you turn overto your left sideto get the sunon your backand outof your eyes And you turn over
to your left side
to get the sun
on your back
and out
of your eyes
Charles Bukowski quotes: God is a lonely place without steak. God is a lonely place without steak.
Charles Bukowski quotes: That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill. That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
Charles Bukowski quotes: The price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is. The price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges. I will always carry you, inside, outside, on my fingertips, and at brain edges.
Charles Bukowski quotes: That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying. That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.
Charles Bukowski quotes: What's so nice about laying in bed all day?" "I don't have to see anybody." "You like that?" "Oh, yes. What's so nice about laying in bed all day?" "I don't have to see anybody." "You like that?" "Oh, yes.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.
Charles Bukowski quotes: She was consumed by 3 simple things:drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:youth and beauty She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty
Charles Bukowski quotes: And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much. And the writers keep writing and the artists keep painting but it doesn't mean too much.
Charles Bukowski quotes: We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski quotes: I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future. I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
Charles Bukowski quotes: If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago. If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
Charles Bukowski quotes: But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress ... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all. But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress ... a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.
Charles Bukowski quotes: But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.) But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.)

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