Quote

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

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
Fool
Needed
Lying
Easy
Beautiful
Wanted
Going
Fools
People
Lies

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that
Charles Bukowski
Image
I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.
Charles Bukowski
Image
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Charles Bukowski
Image
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
Charles Bukowski
Image
don't be ashamed of anything I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I was in love again. I was in trouble
Charles Bukowski
Image
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
Image
I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.
Charles Bukowski
Image
People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them they would mean less and less to me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.
Charles Bukowski
Image
...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.
Charles Bukowski
Image
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.
Charles Bukowski
Image
True revolution comes from true revulsion when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.
Charles Bukowski
Image
eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go.
Charles Bukowski