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“Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“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”

Charles Bukowski book Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

Source: Mockingbird Wish Me Luck

“I knew it would be you”

Charles Bukowski

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“this time has finished me.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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

( from 'the luck of the word' )”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

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

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“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)”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“eleven months.

now she's gone
gone as they go.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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

Charles Bukowski

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

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

Charles Bukowski

“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.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

“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.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

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

Charles Bukowski book Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

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

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

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

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“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.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame

“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.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

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

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women