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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all.
Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
An early taste of death is not necessarily a bad thing.
Charles Bukowski
You've got to know when to let a woman go if you want to keep her,and if you don't want to keep her you let her go anyhow so it's always a process of letting go, one way or the other.
Charles Bukowski
I had no Freedom. I had nothing.
Charles Bukowski
we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.
Charles Bukowski
… and we are in bed together laughing and we don’t care about anything.
Charles Bukowski
I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
Charles Bukowski
...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
Charles Bukowski
Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
Charles Bukowski
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
Charles Bukowski
I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
Charles Bukowski
nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself
Charles Bukowski
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
the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.
Charles Bukowski
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.
Charles Bukowski
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
Charles Bukowski
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!
Charles Bukowski
