Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 13)

“and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it”

“I knew it would be you”

“this time has finished me.”

“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”

“Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is all there and all ours for the taking." -- Cecilia to Henry Chinaski, liberty taken changing past tense to present tense (173)”

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”

“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”

“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”

“When you clean up a city, you destroy it.”

“there must be a way.

surely there must be a way that we have not yet
thought of.

who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
"no.”

“What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?”
That’s when you need a drink the most.”

“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.”

“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”

“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”

“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”

“Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.”

“So, that’s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That’s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me.”

“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”