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Charles Bukowski quotes - page 12
My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
Charles Bukowski
I feel strangely normal.
Charles Bukowski
It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.
Charles Bukowski
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
Charles Bukowski
I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
Charles Bukowski
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
Charles Bukowski
What? You'd dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That's when you need a drink the most.
Charles Bukowski
I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.
Charles Bukowski
The trouble with a mask is it never changes.
Charles Bukowski
I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.
Charles Bukowski
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit.
Charles Bukowski
agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.
Charles Bukowski
The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.
Charles Bukowski
I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?
Charles Bukowski
and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it.
Charles Bukowski
Oh, I don't mean you're handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they're beautiful. They're wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.
Charles Bukowski
she is no longer the beautiful woman she was. she sends photos of herself sitting upon a rock by the ocean alone and damned. I could have had her once. I wonder if she thinks I could have saved her?
Charles Bukowski
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
Charles Bukowski
They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.
Charles Bukowski
I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.
Charles Bukowski
And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep.
Charles Bukowski
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.
Charles Bukowski
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