Charles Bukowski quotes - page 5

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. (Charles Bukowski)
I just want a hot cup of coffee,black,and I don't want to hear about your troubles. View quote
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there's no clarity. there was never meant to be clarity. View quote
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You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired. View quote
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m. View quote
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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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young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. View quote
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There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness. View quote
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I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous. View quote
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my youth, one time, that time I knew even through the nothingness, it was a celebration of something not to do but only know. View quote
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I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power. (Charles Bukowski)
my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here. View quote
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the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things. View quote
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we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. View quote
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Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great. View quote
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My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me. View quote
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not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. View quote
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People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it. View quote
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A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class. View quote
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our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory. View quote
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All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. (Charles Bukowski)
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you. View quote
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If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket. View quote
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you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided. View quote
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You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand. View quote
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