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Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
— Charles Bukowski
I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.
— Charles Bukowski
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready.
— Charles Bukowski
One can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid
— Charles Bukowski
I had also read somewhere that if a man didn't truly believe or understand what he was espousing, somehow he could do a more convincing job
— 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
There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.
— Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
— Charles Bukowski
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
— Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
— Charles Bukowski
The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
— Charles Bukowski
Are you anti-black?I'm anti-everything. — Charles Bukowski
We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.
— Charles Bukowski
Most giveway
leaving
empty spaces
where people should
be. — Charles Bukowski
Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
— Charles Bukowski
You get so alone at times that it just makes sense.
— Charles Bukowski
there's all that time to eat drink and wait on death like everybody else.
— Charles Bukowski
That's when I first learned that it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
— Charles Bukowski
She likes that and I like it too because to/make a thing true all you've/got to do is believe
— Charles Bukowski
The world is better withoutthem.
only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.
I drink to them and with
them. — Charles Bukowski
Only assholes talk about writing
— Charles Bukowski
What were you going to do tonight?" "I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff." "Who's that?" "A dead Russian.
— Charles Bukowski
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
— Charles Bukowski
Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born.
— Charles Bukowski
The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.
— Charles Bukowski
Only the boring get bored
— Charles Bukowski
Angels,we have grown apart. — Charles Bukowski
Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. it's a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it.
— Charles Bukowski
Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
— Charles Bukowski
The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.
— Charles Bukowski
I did not like war, even when it was the popular thing to do.
— Charles Bukowski
I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
— Charles Bukowski
But as God said, crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry. — Charles Bukowski
I am going to paint one day and when I do I will show the world what color means.
— Charles Bukowski
Nothing against the law ever cease to exist.
— Charles Bukowski
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.
— Charles Bukowski
Well,we lost it,
and
that's all there is
to that. — Charles Bukowski
Those who preach god, need godThose who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love — Charles Bukowski
It's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog.
— Charles Bukowski
Since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light
— Charles Bukowski
I am not likeother people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself. — Charles Bukowski
I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.
— Charles Bukowski
It never happenedbut it seemed like
there were times when rot
stopped
waited like a streetcar
at a signal. — Charles Bukowski
When you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.
— Charles Bukowski
A worthwhile day, I had killed two spiders, I had upset the balance of nature - now we would all be eaten up by the bugs and the flies.
— Charles Bukowski
The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.
— Charles Bukowski
There's a light somewhere.It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness. — Charles Bukowski
Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.
— Charles Bukowski
Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
— Charles Bukowski
My hands dead my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me. — Charles Bukowski
I don't know why, but with each new woman it seemed like the first time, almost as if I had never been with a woman before.
— Charles Bukowski
Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
— Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
— Charles Bukowski
Young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
— Charles Bukowski
The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
— Charles Bukowski
My heart is a thousand years old.
— Charles Bukowski
I am a poem. There is no way out.
— 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
Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.
— Charles Bukowski
Don't do it. Don't love me.
— Charles Bukowski
I hope that death containsless than this. — 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
People don't do me much good.
— 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
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
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
— Charles Bukowski
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,
— Charles Bukowski
If you get married they think you'refinished
and if you are without a woman they think you're
incomplete. — Charles Bukowski
Whores are natural
— Charles Bukowski
Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money.writers?
writers starved.
writers suicided.
writers went mad. — Charles Bukowski
If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.
— Charles Bukowski
Their lives full of canned, mutilated laughter.
— 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
Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.
— Charles Bukowski
He fell off the table like a crab looking for the sea.
— Charles Bukowski
I feel no grief for being called somethingwhich
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub — Charles Bukowski
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
— Charles Bukowski
I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
— Charles Bukowski
Belane, are you nuts?Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm? — Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one — Charles Bukowski
The beginning of a relationship was always the easiest.
— Charles Bukowski
There is no hurry. Time means nothingto you. — Charles Bukowski
It's when you hide things that you choke on them.
— Charles Bukowski
Love it or leave it
— Charles Bukowski
We are hardly ever as that which we create
— 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
That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience.
— 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
Baby," I said, "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
— Charles Bukowski
They say thatnothing is wasted:
either that
or
it al is — Charles Bukowski
Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail.
— Charles Bukowski
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
— Charles Bukowski
I am satisfiedwith my aggressive nature
as I tickle death
under the
armpits. — Charles Bukowski
