Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski:

Henry Charles Bukowski was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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now it’s computers and more computers and soon everybody will have one, 3-year-olds will have computers and everybody will know everything about everybody else long before they meet them. nobody will want to meet anybody else ever again and everybo...

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unaccountably we are alone forever alone and it was meant to be that way, it was never meant to be any other way– and when the death struggle begins the last thing I wish to see is a ring of human faces hovering over me– better just my old friend...

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E poi ci sono quelli che credono che le vecchie relazioni possano essere rivissute e fatte nuove. Ma perfavore se ti senti in quel modo non chiamare non scrivere non arrivare...

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La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

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I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making words do a few things. I see enough of humanity at the racetracks, the supermarkets, gas stations, freeways, cafes, etc. This can´t be helped. But I feel like kicking myself in the ass when...

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The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

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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.

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I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.

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Yes?’ he asked, looking at me over the sheet. ‘I’m a writer temporarily down on my inspirations.’ ‘Oh, a writer, eh?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘No, I’m not.’ ‘What do you write?’ ‘Short stories mostly. And I’m halfway ...

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She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it.

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If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean...

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That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

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It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun

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A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.

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Then came the Christmas party. That was December 24th. There were to be drinks, food, music, dancing. I didn't like parties. I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witt...

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jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her.

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You bitch," I whispered, "I love you." Then I came.

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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. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.

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People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.

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I´ve given you my time. Its all I´ve got to give - its all any man has. And for a pitiful buck and a quarter an hour.

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Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

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Author Bio

  • NameCharles Bukowski
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornAugust 16, 1920
  • DiedMarch 9, 1994
  • CountryGermany; United States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Writer; Screenwriter; Poet; Novelist