Quote

Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth.

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
Important
Endurance
Beer
Drunk
Anybody
Talent
Takes
Special
Truth

More quotes by Charles Bukowski

Image
It was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. There were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tried to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Baby, I said. I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
Charles Bukowski
Image
it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!
Charles Bukowski
Image
But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
Charles Bukowski
Image
as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.
Charles Bukowski
Image
In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.
Charles Bukowski
Image
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
Charles Bukowski
Image
It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Never get out of bed before noon.
Charles Bukowski
Image
Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.
Charles Bukowski
Image
That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.
Charles Bukowski