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I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out. — Charles Bukowski

The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses. — Charles Bukowski

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted. — Charles Bukowski

One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid — Charles Bukowski

When I write, when I'm going hot, I don't want to write more than four hours in a row. After that, you're pushing it. — Charles Bukowski

We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create. — Charles Bukowski

there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else. — Charles Bukowski

The world is better without
them.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski

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

I was compared to Charles Bukowski yesterday. It was the best and worst compliment I've ever gotten. — Rosa Sophia

Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. — Charles Bukowski

They say that
nothing is wasted:
either that
or
it al is — Charles Bukowski

Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. — Charles Bukowski

I felt terrible. The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had. — Charles Bukowski

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. — Charles Bukowski

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. — Charles Bukowski

I don't understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone. — Charles Bukowski

What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. — Charles Bukowski

I am satisfied
with my aggressive nature
as I tickle death
under the
armpits. — Charles Bukowski

My hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me. — Charles Bukowski

My part of the game is that I must live the best I can. — Charles Bukowski

If I had met you I would probably have been unfair to you or you to me. it was best like this. — Charles Bukowski

Ambition rarely has anything to do with talent. Luck is best, and talent limps along a little bit behind luck. — Charles Bukowski

I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have. — Charles Bukowski

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody. — Charles Bukowski

Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any ... '
'You talk like a writer,' said Francois. — Charles Bukowski

Truth changes as men change, and when truth becomes stable men will become dead, and the insect and the fire and the flood will become truth. — Charles Bukowski

Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter. — Charles Bukowski

If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates. — Charles Bukowski

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.
writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski

Whores are natural — Charles Bukowski

If you get married they think you're
finished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete. — Charles Bukowski

Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die, — Charles Bukowski

Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. — Charles Bukowski

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated. - from 'Cows in Art Class — Charles Bukowski

Then I gave up trying to please her and simply fucked her, ripping viciously. It was like murder. I didn't care; my cock had gone crazy. — Charles Bukowski

I'm only interested in poetry. — Charles Bukowski

Nothing against the law ever cease to exist. — Charles Bukowski

I hope that death contains
less than this. — Charles Bukowski

Don't do it. Don't love me. — Charles Bukowski

Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done. — Charles Bukowski

I'm sorry, I said, I'm really sorry.
I stood up in a cafe and screamed
I'm in love,
and now you've made a fool of me ... — Charles Bukowski

I am a poem. There is no way out. — Charles Bukowski

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good. — Charles Bukowski

I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them. — Charles Bukowski

Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. — Charles Bukowski

People don't do me much good. — Charles Bukowski

There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. — Charles Bukowski