Charles Bukowski quotes - page 21

How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? (Charles Bukowski)
I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen but as the years wasted on nothing ever did unless I caused it. View quote
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I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. View quote
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Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love. View quote
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Maybe she hadn't saved the world but she had made a major improvement. View quote
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The more crap you believe, the better off you are. View quote
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But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress...a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all. View quote
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Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought. View quote
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Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat. View quote
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It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell. View quote
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regret is mostly caused by not having done anything. (Charles Bukowski)
In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did. View quote
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I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. View quote
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the worst thing," he told me, "is bitterness, people end up so bitter. View quote
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At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. View quote
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people diminish me; the longer I sit and listen to them the more empty I feel but I don't get the idea that they feel empty, I feel that they enjoy the sound from their mouths. View quote
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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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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love. View quote
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girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you. View quote
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lay down. lay down like an animal and wait. View quote
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it does seem the more we drink the better the words go. (Charles Bukowski)
I paid, got up, walked to the door, opened it. I heard the man say, "that guy's nuts." out on the street I walked north feeling curiously honored. View quote
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the price of creation is never too high. the price of living with other people always is. View quote
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the area dividing the brain and the soul is affected in many ways by experience – some lose all mind and become soul: insane. some lose all soul and become mind: intellectual. some lose both and become: accepted. View quote
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she slammed the door and was gone. I looked at the closed door and at the doorknob and strangely I didn't feel alone. View quote
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