Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.
Charles Bukowski
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Sharing
Prejudice
Friendship
Means
Experience
More quotes by Charles Bukowski
The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.
Charles Bukowski
We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition.
Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one
Charles Bukowski
I am this fiery snail crawling home.
Charles Bukowski
Knowledge is knowing as little as possible.
Charles Bukowski
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times
Charles Bukowski
Beware of those who seek constant crowds they are nothing alone.
Charles Bukowski
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
Charles Bukowski
So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.
Charles Bukowski
she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.
Charles Bukowski
the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
Charles Bukowski
I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard.
Charles Bukowski
my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
Charles Bukowski
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
Charles Bukowski
Potential, I said, doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.
Charles Bukowski
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
Charles Bukowski
the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart
Charles Bukowski
Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die.
Charles Bukowski
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
Charles Bukowski
