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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Charles Bukowski quotes about life

American Author, Writer, Poet August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994

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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. Charles Bukowski
t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married..."
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day..."
In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God..."
It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God..."
It wasn't my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. Charles Bukowski
Ihave a face like a washrag. I singlove songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can'tstand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the whiterefrigerator and want to scream likethe last weeping of life forever but. I am bigger than the mountains. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I have been treated better than I should have been---not by..."
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women. Charles Bukowski
Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Life's as kind as you let it be."
Life's as kind as you let it be. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so..."
life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle - Charles Bukowski
Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the..."
It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun Charles Bukowski
But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had..."
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life. Charles Bukowski

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