Charles Bukowski: Trending quotes (page 24)

“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”

“I'm only interested in poetry.”

“What's wrong with assholes, baby?”

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.”

“The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic
with divine creatures
who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us”

“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”

“It’s hard to drink when you dance. And it’s hard to dance when you drink.”

“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”

“When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.”

“the world is better without
them.

only the plants and the animals are
true comrades.

I drink to them and with
them.”

“Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”

“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”

“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn’t have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

“I had no Freedom. I had nothing.”

“The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”

“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”

“I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.”

“yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut”

“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”