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“well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.”

Charles Bukowski

“the gods play no
favorites.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.”

Charles Bukowski

“It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“The trouble with these people is that their cities have never been bombed and their mothers have never been told to shut up.”

Charles Bukowski

“I would certainly end up forever crying the blues into a
coffee cup in a park for old men playing
chess or silly games of some sort.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“you are
yesterday's
bouquet so sadly
raided”

Charles Bukowski

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

“That's the way it ends. The thin edge of the wedge.”

Charles Bukowski

“Tell him to seek the stars and he will kill himself with climbing.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Are you anti-black?
I'm anti-everything.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a lifetime. It was appalling, it was disgusting, it was stupid.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“You get so alone at times that it just makes sense.”

Charles Bukowski

“I run with the hunted.”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: Run with the hunted.

“It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life.”

Charles Bukowski