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“Only the boring get bored”

Charles Bukowski

“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.
It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum

“as the shadows assume
shapes
I fight the slow
retreat

now
my once-promise
dwindling
dwindling

now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring more
drinks

it has been a beautiful
fight

still
is.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his
passion. He must have looked like an
earthquake walking down the street.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“human relationships simply aren't
durable.
I think back to the women in
my life.
they seem non-existent.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it”

Charles Bukowski book Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

Charles Bukowski quote: “too often, the only escape is sleep”

“too often, the only escape is sleep”

Charles Bukowski

“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women (1978)
Context: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

“A woman must be nursed into subsistence by love, where a man can become stronger by being hated." - from 'Cows in Art Class”

Charles Bukowski

“Let' em learn or let' em die”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Post Office

“our bones
like stems into the sky
will forever cry
victory”

Charles Bukowski

“All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“I was getting depressed. My life wasn't going anywhere. I needed something, the flashing of lights, glamour, some damn thing. And here I was, talking to the dead. I finished my first drink. The second was ready.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“There still might be a place for us somewhere.”

Charles Bukowski

“There is always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp