Charles Bukowski quotes - page 17

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)
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false. View quote
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the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent. View quote
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there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting. View quote
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Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad. View quote
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she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind. View quote
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escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you. View quote
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Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any. View quote
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there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone. View quote
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If you want to create, you'll create... View quote
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There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you. (Charles Bukowski)
and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter. View quote
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the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left, they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives. View quote
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and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea. View quote
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I can almost understand why people leap from bridges. View quote
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Great books are the ones we need. View quote
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All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be. View quote
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Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said. View quote
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... and we are in bed together laughing and we don't care about anything. View quote
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I feel no grief for being called something which I am not; in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good back rub. View quote
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I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone. (Charles Bukowski)
I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon. View quote
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it is good to be sitting some place in public at 2:30 in the afternoon without getting the flesh ripped from your bones. View quote
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don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors. View quote
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as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday. View quote
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