Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski

"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."
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"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful little tricks and handsprings."
Charles Bukowski
"I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism."
Charles Bukowski
"There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people are stricken wth fear. They fear failure so much that they fail."
Charles Bukowski
"I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. 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. I tried book after book. Surely, out of all those books, there was one."
Charles Bukowski
"the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all."
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
"Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje."
Charles Bukowski
"If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life."
Charles Bukowski
"The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page."
Charles Bukowski
"Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
Charles Bukowski
"Don’t ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out"
Charles Bukowski
"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning"
Charles Bukowski
"nothing can save you except writing. it keeps the walls from failing."
Charles Bukowski
"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
"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
"we must bringour own lightto thedarkness."
Charles Bukowski
"Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it's cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it's cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes..."
Charles Bukowski
"where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die,"
Charles Bukowski
"that your power of commandwith simple language wasone of the magnificent things ofour century.(from the poem: result)"
Charles Bukowski
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