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Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Don't fight your demons. Your...

Don't fight your demons. Your demons are here to teach you lessons. Sit down with your demons and have a drink and a chat and learn their names and talk about the burns on their fingers and scratches on their ankles. Some of them are very nice.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Wherever the crowd goes run i...

Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

I think that the world should...

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and cats, very nice, good night.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Intellectuals say simple thin...

Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Writing is like going to bed ...

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Human relationships are stran...

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

when I was a boy I used to dr...

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

It's better to do a dull thin...

It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The streets were full of insa...

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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