Quote

purple does something strange to me

Charles Bukowski

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
Actor
Author
Autobiographer
Columnist
Diarist
Journalist
Novelist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Henry Charles Bukowski
Buk
charles bukowski
Purple
Strange
Doe
Something

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good
Charles Bukowski
Image
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm.
Charles Bukowski
Image
The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the Watchtower itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.
Charles Bukowski
Image
the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
Charles Bukowski
Image
Modern women ... they don't sew your pockets ... forget that.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.
Charles Bukowski
Image
That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.
Charles Bukowski
Image
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
Image
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
Charles Bukowski