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This is a world where everybo...

This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that . . . Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don’t wanna do. All the things that I don’t wanna be. Places I don’t wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don’t understand that . . .

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

There would never be a way fo...

There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The public takes from a write...

The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I went to the bathroom and th...

I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

A man who can beat the horses...

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

morning night and noon the tr...

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Anybody can be a non-drunk. I...

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

People don't need love. What ...

People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Most people are much better a...

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

alone with everybody the fles...

alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

nothing's news. it's the same...

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.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

They looked as if nothing had...

They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

You have to lay down in the c...

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

the history of melancholia in...

the history of melancholia includes all of us.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I'm very clever at hiding...

I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I think a man can keep on dri...

I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out of it, and they're sick and they spring back, they spring back and forth...If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

as the shadows assume shapes ...

as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

A yet women -good women- frig...

A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. Basically I craved prostitutes, base women, because they were deadly and hard and made no personal demands. Nothing was lost when they left. Yet at the same time I yearned for a gentle, good woman, despite the overwhelming price.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I am too sick to lay down the...

I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

There's nothing else as pleas...

There's nothing else as pleasant as being unpleasant when there's nothing else to do, and there's usually nothing else to do.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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