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Charles Bukowski quotes

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

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Charles Bukowski quote: "There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see..."
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
Charles Bukowski quote: "my youth, one time, that time. I kneweven through..."
my youth, one time, that time. I kneweven through thenothingness, it was a celebrationof something not todobut onlyknow. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "this time has finished me."
this time has finished me. Charles Bukowski
Beware those quick to praise, for they need praise in return. Beware those who are quick to censor, they are afraid of what they do not know. Beware those who seek constant crowds forthey are nothing alone. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "There is no hurry. Time means nothingto you."
There is no hurry. Time means nothingto you. Charles Bukowski
I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I met Betty on the street. "I saw you with that bitch a while..."
I met Betty on the street. "I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."None of them are. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "people run from rain butsitin bathtubs full ofwater."
people run from rain butsitin bathtubs full ofwater. Charles Bukowski
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Great art is horseshit, buy tacos."
Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. Charles Bukowski
Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent. Charles Bukowski
This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . . Charles Bukowski
They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch. Charles Bukowski
They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light butit..."
There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light butit beats the darkness. Charles Bukowski

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