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“The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“I paid, got up, walked
to the door, opened
it.

I heard the man
say, "that guy's
nuts."

out on the street I
walked north
feeling
curiously
honored.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office (1971)

“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Never get out of bed before noon.”

Charles Bukowski

“the price of creation
is never
too high.

the price of living
with other people
always
is.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“the beautiful are found in the edge of a room
crumpled into spiders and needles and silence
and we can never understand why they
left, they were so
beautiful.

they dont make it,
the beautiful die young
and leave the ugly to their ugly lives.”

Charles Bukowski

“the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience –
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: The area dividing the brain and the soul
Is affected in many ways by experience --
Some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
Some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
Some lose both and become:
accepted.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“I can
almost understand
why
people
leap
from
bridges.”

Charles Bukowski

“she slammed the door and
was gone.

I looked at the closed door
and at the doorknob
and strangely
I didn't feel
alone.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Well, the rain had stopped but the pain was still there.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“Great books are the ones we need”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems