Charles Bukowski Quotes - Page 6

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• as the spirit wanes the form appears

  Charles Bukowski

  Spirit, Form

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.105, Canongate Books

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• The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it

  Charles Bukowski

  Soul, Lazy Eyes, Knows

  Charles Bukowski (1972). “Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness”

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• Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Being Alone, Fighting

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

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• you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

  Charles Bukowski

  Women, Boys, High Heels

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Sleep, Eye

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• I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

  Charles Bukowski

  Old Friends, Used

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.302, Canongate Books

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• I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

  Charles Bukowski

  Beer, Men, Forgotten

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• I want so much that is not here and do not know where to go.

  Charles Bukowski

  Want, Knows

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• I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

  Charles Bukowski

  Sadness, Thinking, Sick

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.11, City Lights Books

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• Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mean, Sleep, Talking

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• Insanity is relative. Who sets the norm?

  Charles Bukowski

  Insanity, Norm, Relative

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• Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Sadness, Inability

  Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Writing”, p.132, Canongate Books

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• You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

  Charles Bukowski

  Play, Whiskey, Stealing

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.38, City Lights Books

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• and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

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  Strong, Sleep, Skills

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• Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

  Charles Bukowski

  War, Dying, Happenings

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• Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that

  Charles Bukowski

  Hell, Bother

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• I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

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  Mean, Giving, Awareness

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• I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Littles, Chance

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• Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Tacos, Great Art

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• I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Work, Drinking

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 31, 1975.

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• 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. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Suicide, Jesus, Sleep

  "Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

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• Before my death I hope to obtain my life.

  Charles Bukowski

  Charles Bukowski, “What Can We Do?”

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• great writers are indecent people they live unfairly saving the best part for paper. good human beings save the world so that bastards like me can keep creating art, become immortal. if you read this after I am dead it means I made it.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Writing, Mean

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• Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

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  Stupid, Hard Work, Mad

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• People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

  Charles Bukowski

  People, Sick, Needs

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