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It's the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife. — Charles Bukowski

He's sick on the dream. We're all sick on the dream, that's why we're out here. — Charles Bukowski

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

it's so easy to be a poet
and so hard to be
a man. — Charles Bukowski

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

There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge. — Charles Bukowski

It's so easy to be easy - if you let it. — Charles Bukowski

New Year's Eve always terrifies me. — Charles Bukowski

Something else is hurting you -
that's why you need pot
or whiskey, or screaming music
turned so fucking loud
you can't think — Charles Bukowski

There's something wrong with me besides melancholia. — Charles Bukowski

Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski

sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do. — Charles Bukowski

There's too much coldness in the world," I told her. "If people would only talk things out together it would help. — Charles Bukowski

I emit, I hiss a rather tired and gentle word like "shit", then tear this page from the machine. it's your. — Charles Bukowski

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

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any. — 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

I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that. — 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

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do. — Charles Bukowski

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night. — Charles Bukowski

Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along — Charles Bukowski

Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else. — Charles Bukowski

We drank everything his favorite poet drank-Bukowski- and like Bukowski's women, I matched him drink for drink.
We drank each other blind. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Let it die. Let there be a new beginning. It's awful. Goodnight. — Charles Bukowski

eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go. — Charles Bukowski

...there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand. — Charles Bukowski

So it's always a process of letting go, one way or another — Charles Bukowski

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

you are
yesterday's
bouquet so sadly
raided — Charles Bukowski

it's a war not easily won — Charles Bukowski

there's music in everything, even defeat - but — Charles Bukowski

I told her, "Hang tight, baby, it's a crazy world." And that, as they say, was that. — Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself. — Charles Bukowski

It's good to have things done with when they don't work it's also good not to hate or even forget the person you've failed with. — Charles Bukowski

What's so nice about laying in bed all day?" "I don't have to see anybody." "You like that?" "Oh, yes. — Charles Bukowski

But starvation,
unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's
soul was rooted in his stomach — Bukowski

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. — Charles Bukowski

All's fair in hate and Hollywood. — Charles Bukowski

You like that poet, Bukowski?" "Yeah," I answered, confused. "Don't try." "I don't understand." "That's what it says, on Bukowski's grave. — Kami Garcia

We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nights
our silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti — Charles Bukowski

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

You know there's a lot of you I've loved and it hasn't been entirely your money. — Charles Bukowski

It's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you? — Charles Bukowski

there's no defense
except all the errors
made — Charles Bukowski

It's a lonely time, she sings, and you're not
mine and it makes me feel so bad,
this thing of being me ... — Charles Bukowski

Don't you wish you were Charles Bukowski? I can paint to. lift weights. and my little girl think that I am god. then other times, it's not so good. — Charles Bukowski

But right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way. — Charles Bukowski

it's the dream that keeps you going then and now. — Charles Bukowski

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. — Charles Bukowski

Of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse — Charles Bukowski

I get 75 letters a month. If i answered them that's all I would ever do. — Charles Bukowski

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. — Charles Bukowski

It's hard to drink when you dance. And it's hard to dance when you drink. — Charles Bukowski

A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off. — Charles Bukowski

Why it's so hard to go crazy - if you're not already crazy — Charles Bukowski

What's wrong is that I am a GIANT HUNK OF SHIT! — Charles Bukowski

I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain. — Charles Bukowski

sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death. — Charles Bukowski

What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist. — Charles Bukowski

Suicide fails as you get older:
there's less and less to kill. — Charles Bukowski

He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. — Charles Bukowski

Life's as kind as you let it be. — Charles Bukowski

She's mad, but she is magic. There's no lie in her fire." - CHARLES BUKOWSKI — L.J. Shen

What's wrong with assholes, baby? — Charles Bukowski

That's your response to everything: drink?"
"No, that's my response to nothing. — Charles Bukowski

It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell. — Charles Bukowski

she's mad, but she's magic. — Charles Bukowski

If there's anything worse than a whore it's a bore. — Charles Bukowski

I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time. — Charles Bukowski

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

It's almost entirely waste. regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. the mind barks like a dog. — Charles Bukowski

There's a light somewhere.
It may not be much light but
it beats the darkness. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

It's when you hide things that you choke on them. — Charles Bukowski

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

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

How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way. — Charles Bukowski

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. — Charles Bukowski

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead. — Charles Bukowski

But Billy, how about me? What about what's inside of me? — Charles Bukowski

What do you do all day?
I just stay in bed.
That's awful.
No, it's nice. I like it. — 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

That's how they hooked you - they gave you just enough to keep alive but they never gave you enough so you could finally escape. — Charles Bukowski

it's better to be happy...if you can..!! — Charles Bukowski

Most of these men's lives were so tortured that I enjoyed reading about them, thinking, well, I am in hell too and I can't even write music. — Charles Bukowski

When I see a man with a tidy place I know there's something wrong with him. And if it's too tidy, he's a fag. — Charles Bukowski

There's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. — Charles Bukowski

So, that's what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That's what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me. — Charles Bukowski

What's fiction?" "Fiction is an improvement on life. — Charles Bukowski

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail. — Charles Bukowski

Just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, there's one tough
son of a
bitch. — Charles Bukowski

It's never quite right, all the things we are
taught, all the loves we chase, all the deaths we
die, all the lives we live. — Charles Bukowski

Sometimes there's luck,
When there is you stock up on it
and wait for the other times — Charles Bukowski

Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. — Charles Bukowski

There's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. — Charles Bukowski

She's mad but she's magic.
There's no lie in her fire. — Charles Bukowski

My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.' — Alex Pettyfer