Charles Bukowski quotes - page 2

Beauty is nothing, beauty won't stay. You don't know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it's for something else. (Charles Bukowski)
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. View quote
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We don't even ask happiness, just a little less pain. View quote
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For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. View quote
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I've never met another man I'd rather be. View quote
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my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world. View quote
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Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman. View quote
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with. View quote
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Never get out of bed before noon. View quote
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It began as a mistake. View quote
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style. (Charles Bukowski)
Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience. View quote
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Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me. View quote
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Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you. View quote
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My ambition is handicapped by my laziness. View quote
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You gotta find what you like and let it kill you. View quote
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Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have. View quote
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Hell was what you made it. View quote
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Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool. View quote
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I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life. View quote
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She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire. (Charles Bukowski)
there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space. View quote
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one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid. View quote
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there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late. View quote
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Life's as kind as you let it be. View quote
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