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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 give
way
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 without
them.
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

No life anywhere, no life in this town or this place or in this weary existence — Charles Bukowski

Well,
we lost it,
and
that's all there is
to that. — Charles Bukowski

Those who preach god, need god
Those 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 like
other 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

When the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this. — Charles Bukowski

It never happened
but 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

Love dries up, I thought
as I walked back to the
bathroom, even faster
than sperm. — 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

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. — 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

I'm very clever
at
hiding poems
perhaps more
clever than I
am
at
writing
them. — 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 contains
less 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're
finished
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 something
which
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 nothing
to 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 that
nothing 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 satisfied
with my aggressive nature
as I tickle death
under the
armpits. — 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