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Charles Bukowski quotes

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

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I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there. Charles Bukowski
I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back..."
I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Without literature, life is hell."
Without literature, life is hell. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps..."
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the..."
They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the..."
There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Fiction is an improvement on life"
Fiction is an improvement on life Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high..."
you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. Charles Bukowski
my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was thesaddest smile I ever saw Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience."
That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. Charles Bukowski
I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted. Charles Bukowski
I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee, our noons, our nights, our bodies spilled together, sleeping, the tiny flowing currents, immediate and forever. Your leg, my leg, your arm, my arm, your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again. Charles Bukowski
Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine. Charles Bukowski
There is nothing that teaches you more than regroupingafter failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken withfear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are tooconditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins withthe family, runs through school and goes into the businessworld. Charles Bukowski

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