Charles Bukowski
"I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it."
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"Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right."Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men."
Charles Bukowski
"“For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”"
Charles Bukowski
"There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light butit beats the darkness."
Charles Bukowski
"there are so many dayswhen living stops and pulls up and sitsand waits like a train on the rails."
Charles Bukowski
"in the most decent sometimes sun there is the softsmoke feeling from urns and the canned sound of old battleplanes and if you go inside and run your finger along the window ledge you'll find dirt, maybe even earth. and if you look out the window there will be the day, and as you get older you'll keep looking keep looking sucking your tongue in a little ah ah no no maybe some do it naturally some obscenely everywhere."
Charles Bukowski
"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt."
Charles Bukowski
"It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any."
Charles Bukowski
"Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
Charles Bukowski
"...they would say 'he said this, he did that', but they would never say 'she said this, she did that'. So I would say, they are sick, and I am well. Pardon me."
Charles Bukowski
"all people start tocome apart finallyand there it is:just empty ashtrays in a roomor wisps of hair on a combin the dissolving moonlight."
Charles Bukowski
"Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent."
Charles Bukowski
"Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet."
Charles Bukowski
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