Charles Bukowski Quotes - Page 21

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• There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't.

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  Thinking, Light, Doors

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

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  Men, Tonight, Alive

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed.

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  Crazy, Love You, Said

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.122, Canongate Books

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• It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.

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  Running, Rain, Sleep

  Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.260, Feltrinelli Editore

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• there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace

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  Hate, War, Army

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.148, Canongate Books

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• And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

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  Firsts, Said

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.35, Canongate Books

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• I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?

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  Guy, Lucky, Blame

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.29, Harper Collins

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• if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

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  Crazy, Thinking, Rooms

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• There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

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  Writing, Gun, Typewriters

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• nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.

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  Girl, Old Things, Long

  Charles Bukowski (2002). “Il grande”, p.188, Feltrinelli Editore

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• That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

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  Cat, Thinking, Years

  Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

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  Drinking, Silly, People

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• It was too much. The comfortable people made comfortable jokes about weather and things but I sat mostly silent saying a word or so when necessary a word or so trying to hide from them the fact that I was a fool and feeling terrible And I was numb, numb again, numb again again and again, numbness and pain swelling in me.

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  Pain, Numbness, Weather

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• I remember when each 4th lot was vacant and overgrown, and the landlord only go this rent when you had it, and each day was clear and good and each moment was full of promise.

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  Promise, Each Day, Remember

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• After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.

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  Baby, Art, Jobs

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.

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  Sweet, Mistake, Night

  Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney (1983). “The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974”

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• escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.

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  Art, Blood, Drawing

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.37, Harper Collins

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• I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

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  Quilts, Book, Reading

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.166, Canongate Books

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• she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?

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  Beautiful, Ocean, Thinking

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• It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.

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  Drink, Hard

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “Women: A Novel”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

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  Art, Simple, People

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• I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the gods who were not there for me then.

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  Past, Agony, Drunk

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• I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

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  Space, Misanthrope, Drink

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.308, Canongate Books

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• Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.

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  Law, Vaudeville, Firsts

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

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• Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence.

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  Jealous, Games, Different

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

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