Charles Bukowski Quotes
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Charles Bukowski Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
The parents of rich kids tended to be more patriotic because they had more to lose if the country went under.
That was love, that was bravery. Shit, who could really stand me? anyone who could stand me had a lot of forgiveness of soul.
Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.
I dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer
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.
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.
She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning
I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.
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.
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.
I didn't like the eight hour job. I didn't even like the four hour job, even though I couldn't get one.
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.
But isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?
think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.
one good thing
to look back on?
think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.
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
She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.
Hospitals and jails and whores: these are the universities of life. I've got several degrees. Call me Mr.
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.
If you persisted long enough, the good luck usually came. Most people couldn't wait on the luck, though, so they quit.
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.
I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub
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.
"There are some real weirdos down there."
"They're everywhere.
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 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.
What's so nice about laying in bed all day?" "I don't have to see anybody." "You like that?" "Oh, yes.
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.
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.