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Charles Bukowski Quote: “I am aware that a computer can’t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I seldom know what I’m going to write when I sit down. There isn’t much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing’s easy, it’s the living that is sometimes difficult.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I’ll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “It’s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Four days alone with nothing. Emerge empowered. The first human face you see will knock you back 50%.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “People just weren’t interesting. Maybe they weren’t supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn’t understand it.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I hid in bars, because I didn’t want to hide in factories.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “People need me. I fill them. If they can’t see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It’s hard to feed without getting fed.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Trouble and pain were what kept a man alive. Or trying to avoid trouble and pain. It was a full time job.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “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 Quote: “Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I am this fiery snail crawling home.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how – usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “It’s better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I don’t know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you’re back again.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world’s greatest horseplayer.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “That’s the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “As a recluse I couldn’t bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I was their bar freak, they needed me to make themselves feel better. just like, at times, I needed that graveyard.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Art is its own excuse, and it’s either Art or it’s something else. It’s either a poem or a piece of cheese.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I would give anything for a female’s hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn’t so.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Our disappointment sits between us.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible – not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.”
Charles Bukowski Quote: “My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to be denied the right to sit in a small room and starve and drink cheap wine and go crazy in my own way and at my own leisure.”
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