Quotes by
Charles Bukowski |
1920-1994 , American writer
German-born Amerixan author who wrote about the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. He wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books.
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Quotations
| • | Almost all poetry is a failure, because it sounds like somebody saying, Look, I have written a poem! 4 |
| • | When a hot woman meets a hermit, one of them is going to change. 2 |
| • | An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. 1 |
| • | Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don't have any. 1 |
| • | It began as a mistake. 1 |
| • | Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and eight times out of nine I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities. 1 |
| • | If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. 1 |
| • | What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. 1 |
| • | People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. 1 |
| • | There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. 1 |
| • | The more crap you believe, the better off you are. 1 |
| • | Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn. 1 |
| • | People empty me. I have to get away to refill. 1 |
| • | I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. 1 |
| • | Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. 1 |
| • | If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. 1 |
| • | He asked, “What makes a man a writer?” “Well,” I said, “it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.” 1 |
| • | The trouble with a mask is it never changes. 1 |
| • | 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. 1 |
| • | We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. 1 |
| • | Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss. 1 |
| • | The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. 1 |
| • | I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. 1 |
| • | There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you. 1 |
| • | And yet women –good women– frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep. 1 |
| • | It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. 1 |
| • | Without literature, life is hell. 1 |
| • | I stopped looking for a dream girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare. 1 |
| • | People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love. 1 |
| • | Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. 1 |
| • | Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. 1 |
| • | Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. 1 |
| • | If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose. 1 |
| • | Find what you love and let it kill you. 1 |
| • | You have to die a few times before you can really live. 1 |
| • | My ambition is handicapped by laziness. 1 |
| • | What matters most is how well you walk through the fire. 1 |
| • | Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live. 1 |
