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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in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck

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You boys can keep your virgins, give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Charles Bukowski

there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock

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guido per le strade, ad un passo dal pianto, vergognandomi del mio sentimentalismo e del mio possibile amore.

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alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. fles...

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I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.

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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

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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

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And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, ba...

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Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

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fuck she pulled her dress off over her head and I saw the panties indented somewhat into the crotch. it's only human. now we've got to do it. I've got to do it after all that bluff. it's like a party-- two trapped idiots. under the sheets after I hav...

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for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I think that I should stay listed via Pacific Telephone until I get as much as the average man has had

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there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

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the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever

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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

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animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along

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great books are the ones we need

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I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

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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

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people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.

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I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

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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