Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."
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"Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it."
Charles Bukowski
"Find what you love and let it kill you."
Charles Bukowski
"If I never see you again I will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof what I am ofwhat remains."
Charles Bukowski Living on Luck
"I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
Charles Bukowski Ham on Rye
"My Dear,Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.-Falsely yours"
Charles Bukowski
"I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."
Charles Bukowski
"there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space."
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 Women
"It wasnโ€™t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it."
Charles Bukowski Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy โ€“ Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
"unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
Charles Bukowski
"Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust."
Charles Bukowski
"What is your advice to young writers? Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
Charles Bukowski Hot Water Music
"the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear. The Wine of Forever"
Charles Bukowski Love Is a Dog from Hell
"He asked, What makes a man a writer? Well, I said, it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge."
Charles Bukowski
"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
Charles Bukowski
"Life wore a man out, wore a man thin. Tomorrow would be a better day."
Charles Bukowski Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy โ€“ Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
"the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart"
Charles Bukowski
"โ€œthe worst thing, he told me,is bitterness, people end up sobitter.โ€"
Charles Bukowski You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"โ€œhaving nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.โ€"
Charles Bukowski You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"โ€œsome men neverdieand some men neverlivebut we're all alivetonight.โ€"
Charles Bukowski You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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