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the last cigarettes are smoke...

the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

A love like that was a seriou...

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

you are on the freeway thread...

you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Love is all right for those w...

Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I grow tired of 18th century ...

I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I was glad I wasn't in love, ...

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Some people have written that...

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I hated you when it would hav...

I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

You can forgive a fool becaus...

You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Sometimes I get too exhausted...

Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I have two rules. One is, nev...

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Careful poetry and careful pe...

Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Well, people got attatched. O...

Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

There's a bluebird in my hear...

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I was a man who thrived on so...

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

you've got to burn straight u...

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

The hangover was brutal but h...

The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

I call 'em complaining machin...

I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

Some nights I knew that if I ...

Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

The shortest distance between...

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Charles Bukowski 831 quotes

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