Charles Bukowski quotes - page 11

A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. (Charles Bukowski)
We are all museums of fear. View quote
Charles Bukowski
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. View quote
Charles Bukowski
When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds. View quote
Charles Bukowski
You were destroyed by what you befriended. View quote
Charles Bukowski
i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead. View quote
Charles Bukowski
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. View quote
Charles Bukowski
dogs and angels are not very far apart. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Do some living and get yourself a typewriter. View quote
Charles Bukowski
If you can hit a guy once, you can hit him twice. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Don't do it. Don't love me. (Charles Bukowski)
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all. View quote
Charles Bukowski
yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses. View quote
Charles Bukowski
and love was lightning and remembrance. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation. View quote
Charles Bukowski
News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that. View quote
Charles Bukowski
I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready. View quote
Charles Bukowski
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. View quote
Charles Bukowski
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last. (Charles Bukowski)
I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. View quote
Charles Bukowski
Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery. View quote
Charles Bukowski
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. View quote
Charles Bukowski
To be young is the only religion. View quote
Charles Bukowski