Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 15)

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

“I just want a hot cup of coffee, black, and I don’t want to hear about your troubles.”

“True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.”

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

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

“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.”

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“as the spirit wanes the form appears”

“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.”

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

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

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

I don't know. I'm already tired.”

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

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

“but right now
it's Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan Bob
Dylan all the
way.”