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Charles Bukowski quotes

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

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I sit on the couch watching her arrangeher long red hair before my bedroommirror. she pulls her hair up andpiles it on top of her head-she lets her eyes look atmy eyes-then she drops her hair andlets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold herspeechlessly from the backmy arm around her neck. I touch her wrists and handsfeel up toher elbowsno further. Charles Bukowski
Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness. 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
Charles Bukowski quote: "Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man..."
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees..."
my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. 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
Charles Bukowski quote: "It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have..."
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took. Charles Bukowski
there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, "you shouldn't have done that." and the soldier said, "FUCK THAT GUY!" which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. Charles Bukowski
Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow..."
young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. Charles Bukowski
You are thirty minutes late."Yes."Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?"No."Why not, pray tell?"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral. Charles Bukowski
That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8and at 5; there are cats in the alleysand bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder wherethe living goeswhen it stops. Charles Bukowski
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more..."
she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind. Charles Bukowski

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