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Charles Bukowski quotes

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

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I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone. Charles Bukowski
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I take much pleasure in being alonebut there is also a strange..."
I take much pleasure in being alonebut there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. Charles Bukowski
It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell."
Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. Charles Bukowski
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself. Charles Bukowski
Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges! Charles Bukowski
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 Charles Bukowski
the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I could read the great books but the great books don't..."
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. Charles Bukowski
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all..."
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski
The war. Here I was a virgin. Could you imagine getting your ass blown off for the sake of history before you even knew what a woman was? Or owned an automobile? What would I be protecting? Somebody else. Somebody else who didn't give a shit about me. Dying in a war never stopped wars from happening. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "it is good to be sitting some placein public at 2:30 in the..."
it is good to be sitting some placein public at 2:30 in the afternoonwithout getting the flesh ripped fromyour bones. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I..."
I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there. Charles Bukowski

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