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“Potential," I said, "doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“I found the best thing
I could do
was just to type away
at my own work
and let the dying
die
as they always have.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“agony sometimes changes
form
but
it never ceases for
anybody.”

Charles Bukowski

“Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories

“Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,
“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.
“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”
“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.”

Charles Bukowski

“There will always be something to ruin our lives. It all depends on what or which finds us first. You’re always ripe and ready to be taken.”

Charles Bukowski

“That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“peace of mind and heart
arrives
when we accept what is:
having been
born into this
strange life
we must accept
the wasted gamble of our
days
and take some satisfaction in
the pleasure of
leaving it all
behind.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: The Pleasures of the Damned

“Love is not a candle burning down. Life is. And love and life are not the same or else Love, having choice, nobody would ever die.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“If you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.”

Charles Bukowski book Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

“Genius could be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way, or even to say a simple thing in a simpler way.”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990

“the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.”

Charles Bukowski

Variant: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense

“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?

how?”

Charles Bukowski book Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?”

Charles Bukowski book Pulp

Source: Pulp

“it's good to have things done with
when they don't work
it's also good not to hate
or even forget
the person you've failed with.”

Charles Bukowski book Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

“They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.”

Charles Bukowski

“I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves.”

Charles Bukowski