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Charles Bukowski quotes - page 4
If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.
Charles Bukowski
when the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this.
Charles Bukowski
unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it.
Charles Bukowski
love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.
Charles Bukowski
Are you becoming what you've always hated?
Charles Bukowski
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
Charles Bukowski
Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.
Charles Bukowski
You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral.
Charles Bukowski
Belane, are you nuts?" Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?
Charles Bukowski
we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.
Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.
Charles Bukowski
I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look," I say, "I don't think I can ever pay that price again.
Charles Bukowski
sometimes I hate you," she said.
Charles Bukowski
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
Charles Bukowski
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
Charles Bukowski
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
Charles Bukowski
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
Charles Bukowski
mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?
Charles Bukowski
People don't do me much good.
Charles Bukowski
I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?
Charles Bukowski
and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else.
Charles Bukowski
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on.
Charles Bukowski
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