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you've got to burn straight up...

you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

don't be ashamed of anything; ...

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

He had long nostril hairs, pow...

He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

If you are going to try, go al...

If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I never met another man I'd ra...

I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

When a writer is swayed with h...

When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

...maybe a damned good night's...

...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like myself, it's all in disarray: things fallen out of place, cluttered, jumbled, lost, knocked over and I can't put it straight, don't want to. Perhaps living through these petty days will get us ready for the dangerous ones.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

my youth, one time, that time ...

my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I didn't have any friends at s...

I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I wasn't a misanthrope and I w...

I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

i was born to hustle roses dow...

i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

We are like roses that have ne...

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

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

The years have gone by quickly...

The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I was a man who thrived on sol...

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

That was all a man needed: hop...

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I remembered my New Orleans da...

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius...

Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The apartment was built at the...

The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you were twelve floors up instead of four. It was very much like living on the edge of the world - a last resting place before the final big drop.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

For each Joan of Arc there is ...

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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

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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....