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Charles Bukowski quotes

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

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Charles Bukowski quote: "Find what you love and let it kill you."
Find what you love and let it kill you. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices."
Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "love be damned nowas love was damned when itfirst arrived."
love be damned nowas love was damned when itfirst arrived. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "There's nothing unusual about love."
There's nothing unusual about love. Charles Bukowski
But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly. Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. Charles Bukowski
When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. Charles Bukowski
The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to..."
They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. Charles Bukowski
I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready. Charles Bukowski
Writing was never work for me. It had been the same for as long as I could remember: turn on the radio to a classical music station, light a cigarette or a cigar, open the bottle. The typer did the rest. All I had to do was be there. The whole process allowed me to continue when life itself offered very little, when life itself was a horror show. There was always the typer to soothe me, to talk to me, to entertain me, to save my ass. Basically that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my... Charles Bukowski
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by..."
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life. Charles Bukowski
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

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