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The trouble with these people...

The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

That's how it is with books, ...

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I'll use the knives for sprea...

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'are...

Daddy,' my mother asked, 'aren’t we going to run out of gas?' No there’s plenty of god-damned gas.' Where are we going?' I’m going to get some god-damed oranges!

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

take a writer away from his t...

take a writer away from his typewriter and all you have left is the sickness which started him typing in the beginning

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I went over to see Marina two...

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Christmas poem to a man in ja...

Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

why don't we go back out ther...

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

A woman must be nursed into s...

A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

It's just that the grape has ...

It's just that the grape has me down.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Once in a dream I saw a snake...

Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

and now sometimes I'm intervi...

and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,"look, look at this!" but they don't understand, they say something like,"you say you've been influenced by Celine?" no," I hold the cat up,"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, t...

Lawyers, doctors, plumbers, they all made the money. Writers? Writers starved. Writers suicided. Writers went mad.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I didn't feel that way about ...

I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Disneyland remains the centra...

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I can't think of any poet-rec...

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

terror finally becomes almost...

terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I had decided against religio...

I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I suppose like others I have ...

I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

That moment - to this ... may...

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.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....