Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 some moments are nice, some are

nicer, some are even worth

writing

about.
 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 La mayor 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 that your power of command

with simple language was

one of the magnificent things of

our century.

(from the poem: result)
 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 And it seems people should not build houses anymore

it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors

under electric lights

without shades;

it seems there is a lot to forget

and a lot not to do

and in drugstores, markets, bars,

the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night

and look through this house and the house does not want to be built
 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 Yes Yes



when God created love he didn't help most

when God created dogs He didn't help dogs

when God created plants that was average

when God created hate we had a standard utility

when God created me He created me

when God created the monkey He was asleep

when He created the giraffe He was drunk

when He created narcotics He was high

and when He created suicide He was low



when He created you lying in bed

He knew what He was doing

He was drunk and He was high

and He created the mountains and the sea and fire at the same time



He made some mistakes

but when He created you lying in bed

He came all over His Blessed Universe.

 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidates who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me. 

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Charles Bukowski  - Quotes

 We are like roses that have never bothered to

bloom when we should have bloomed and

it is as if

the sun has become disgusted with

waiting
 

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