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It's when you begin to lie to...

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I can relax with bums because...

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I kept writing not because I ...

I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The more cats you have, the l...

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Writers have to put up with t...

Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Generally, a writer of force ...

Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The problem was you had to ke...

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Beauty is nothing, beauty won...

Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Unless it comes out of your s...

Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

There are only two things wro...

There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The problem with the world is...

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I see men assassinated around...

I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Sometimes I feel as if we are...

Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I will remember the kisses ou...

I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I've never been lonely. I've ...

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

And don't forget: time is mea...

And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I am not like other people....

I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

This is very important -- to ...

This is very important -- to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without stopping entirely and doing nothing at all for great periods, you're gonna lose everything...just to do nothing at all, very, very important. And how many people do this in modern society? Very few. That's why they're all totally mad, frustrated, angry and hateful.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Success is always dangerous. ...

Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The less I needed, the better...

The less I needed, the better I felt.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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