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“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock. People so tired, mutilated either by love or no love.”

Charles Bukowski

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

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”

Charles Bukowski

“she wasn't very
interesting
but few people
are.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
deserve them

besides
there is
no way
I would welcome
the
intolerable
dull
senseless hell
you would bring
me

and
I wish you
luck
in bed
and
out

but not
in
mine

thank
you.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“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.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“as the spirit wanes the form appears”

Charles Bukowski

“I held her
wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred,
centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and
sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted.
there was no creature living as foul as I
and all my poems were
false.”

Charles Bukowski

“there's no clarity.
there was never meant to be clarity.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive?

I don't know. I'm already tired.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“there is moss on the walls
and the stain of thought and failure and
waiting”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“Capitalism has survived communism. Now, it eats away at itself.”

Charles Bukowski

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