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“All our days are marked with/
unexpected/
affronts--some/
disastrous, others/
less so/
but the process is/
wearing and/
continuous./
Attrition rules./
Most give/
way/
leaving/
empty spaces/
where people should/
be.”

Charles Bukowski

“Why do we embroider everything we say

with special emphasis

when all we really need to do

is simply say what

needs to he said?

Of course

the fact is

that there is very little that needs

to be said.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

Charles Bukowski

“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do — mostly with my time.”

Charles Bukowski

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

Charles Bukowski

“sometimes it's hard to know
what to
do.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

“Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?”

Charles Bukowski

“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I wish I were driving a blue 1952 Buick
or a dark blue 1942 Buick
or a blue 1932 Buick
over a cliff of hell and into the
sea.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“To be young is the only religion.”

Charles Bukowski book Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man

“I feel no grief for being called something
which
I am not;
in fact, it's enthralling, somehow, like a good
back rub”

Charles Bukowski

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

“I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

“my youth,
one time,
that time
I knew
even through the
nothingness,
it was a
celebration
of something not to
do
but only
know.”

Charles Bukowski

“…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

“I just let it roll. Like a hot turd down a hill.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“They were beautiful nothings”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye