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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Charles Bukowski quotes about time

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

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Charles Bukowski quote: "and our few good times will be rare because we have the..."
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical senseand are not easy to fool with laughter Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime..."
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all. Charles Bukowski
dear J: I feel lucky that I didn’t fuck you the first time we met in Houston, but luckier that I didn’t fuck you the last time we met in San Francisco. this is the answer to your letter even though I don’t know if you’ll ever read it. the words are yours but I’ll get credit for the poem. you see, it could never have worked, the way I am. B. Charles Bukowski
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. Charles Bukowski
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax. Charles Bukowski
There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick the whole bloated sensation of ART out on its whore-ass. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a..."
I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time. Charles Bukowski
This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back..."
There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. Charles Bukowski
That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got. 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
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
But they were all tricks. They were very dull. There were pages and pages of words that didn't say anything. Or if they did say something they took too long to say it and by the time they said it you already were too tired to have it matter at all. you al re ady we re Charles Bukowski
unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket, unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you isburning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. Charles Bukowski
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. Charles Bukowski

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