Charles Bukowski quotes - page 18

Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats. (Charles Bukowski)
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. View quote
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Angels, we have grown apart. View quote
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I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the street. View quote
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human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent. View quote
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bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a coffee cup in a park for old men playing chess or silly games of some sort. View quote
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That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge. View quote
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That's your response to everything: drink?" "No, that's my response to nothing. View quote
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I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread. (Charles Bukowski)
Meanwhile the 3 a. m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it. View quote
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I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us. View quote
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I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair. View quote
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we must bring our own light to the darkness. View quote
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I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often. View quote
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all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble. View quote
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Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here. View quote
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well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want to know about things, what makes them work! View quote
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The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us. View quote
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She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be. (Charles Bukowski)
I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together. View quote
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It's not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust. View quote
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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L. A. Public Library. View quote
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Love dries up, I thought as I walked back to the bathroom, even faster than sperm. View quote
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