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Charles Bukowski  Quotes
Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with...

—Charles Bukowski

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great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I...

—Charles Bukowski

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I didn’t know who tobelievebutone thing I doknow: when a man islivingmany claim relationshipsthat are hardlysoand after he dies, well,then it’s everybody’sparty.

—Charles Bukowski

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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you’re frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

—Charles Bukowski

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I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enough of humanity at the racetracks, the supermarkets, gas stations, freeways, cafes, etc. This can´t...

—Charles Bukowski

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my 6 foot goddessmakes me laughthe laughter of the mutilatedwho still needlove…she has saved mefrom everything that isnot here

—Charles Bukowski

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Lovers
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animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that’s why we get along

—Charles Bukowski

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Never bring a lot of money to where a poor man lives. He can only lose what little he has. On the other hand it is mathematically possible that he might win whatever you bring...

—Charles Bukowski

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How are his poems?””He’s not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

—Charles Bukowski

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peace of mind and heartarriveswhen we accept what is:having beenborn into thisstrange lifewe must acceptthe wasted gamble of ourdaysand take some satisfaction inthe pleasure ofleaving it allbehind.

—Charles Bukowski

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Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to...

—Charles Bukowski

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Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

—Charles Bukowski

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I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.

—Charles Bukowski

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the price of creationis nevertoo high.the price of livingwith other peoplealwaysis.

—Charles Bukowski

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I decided to stay in bed until noon. Maybe by then half the world would be dead and it would only be half as hard to take.

—Charles Bukowski

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regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

—Charles Bukowski

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I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was...

—Charles Bukowski

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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

—Charles Bukowski

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there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day

—Charles Bukowski

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Potential,” I said, “doesn’t mean a thing. You’ve got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.

—Charles Bukowski

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and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or...

—Charles Bukowski

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the worst thing,” he told me,”is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

—Charles Bukowski

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where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,

—Charles Bukowski

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for a man of 55 who didn’t get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as...

—Charles Bukowski

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Sex
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we are burning like a chicken wing left on the grill of an outdoor barbecuewe are unwanted and burning we are burning and unwanted we arean unwantedburningas we sizzle and fryto the bonethe coals of...

—Charles Bukowski

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there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

—Charles Bukowski

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There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out.

—Charles Bukowski

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I can see wherecreation oftenstops while thebody still livesand oftendoes not careto.the death of lifebefore lifedies.

—Charles Bukowski

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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

—Charles Bukowski

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I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn’t dead...

—Charles Bukowski

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It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.

—Charles Bukowski

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Life
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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

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I didn’t like anything. Maybe I was afraid. That was it – I was afraid. I wanted to sit alone in a room with the shades down. I feasted upon that. I was a crank....

—Charles Bukowski

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FearLoneliness
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you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there’s no wayout…you see, youunderstand?

—Charles Bukowski

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The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care

—Charles Bukowski

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I know a womanwho keeps buying puzzleschinesepuzzlesblockswirespieces that finally fitinto some order.she works it outmathmaticallyshe solves all herpuzzleslives down by the seaputs sugar out for the antsand believesultimatelyin a better world.her hair is whiteshe seldom...

—Charles Bukowski

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In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades and go to bed for three or four days. I’d get up to...

—Charles Bukowski

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The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever...

—Charles Bukowski

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If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.

—Charles Bukowski

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…wszystko jest stratą czasu, chyba że człowiek pieprzy się w najlepsze, tworzy w najlepsze, ma się jak najlepiej albo zmierza w kierunku ułudy pod tytułem miłość i szczęście. Wszyscy kończymy w gnojówce porażki – czy...

—Charles Bukowski

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Life-And-Death
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the gods play nofavorites.

—Charles Bukowski

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BukowskiDeathEquality
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There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium...

—Charles Bukowski

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as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis.

—Charles Bukowski

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the people are the biggesthorror show on earth,have been forcenturies.

—Charles Bukowski

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(the whole world is at thethroat of the world,everybody feels angry,short-changed, cheated,everybody is despondent,disillusioned.)I welcomed shots of peace, tattered shards ofhappiness.

—Charles Bukowski

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and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon.

—Charles Bukowski

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Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight.

—Charles Bukowski

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CatsNightRain
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there are worse thingsthan being alonebut it often takesdecades to realize thisand most often when you doit’s too lateand there’s nothing worsethan too late

—Charles Bukowski

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you’ve got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don’t want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it’s always a process of letting...

—Charles Bukowski

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Letting-Go
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alone with everybodythe flesh covers the boneand they put a mindin there andsometimes a soul,and the women breakvases against the wallsand them men drink toomuchand nobody finds theonebut they keeplookingcrawling in and outof beds.flesh coversthe...

—Charles Bukowski

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