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The Artist," an ancient sage ...

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I take much pleasure in being...

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

My flesh looked like it wasn'...

My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

They have no idea that it can...

They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

2 p.m. beer nothing matters b...

2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

and our few good times will b...

and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Even the stove and the refrig...

Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

It’s nice enough to make a ma...

It’s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don’t weep, do you?

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

If I stop writing I am dead. ...

If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

People are strange: They are ...

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

It's not the large things tha...

It's not the large things that send a man to the madhouse... no, it's the continuing series of small tragedies... not the death of his love but the shoelace that snaps with no time left.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I am not a snob; it is simply...

I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I was laying in bed one night...

I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Love is kind of like when you...

Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a little while, and then it burns away... Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I like women who haven’t live...

I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I lapsed into my pathetic cut...

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

An artist is a man who says a...

An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

?"she’ mad but she’ magic. th...

?"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

If you're going to try, go al...

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

If something burns your soul ...

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 831 quotes

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