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“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing.”

Charles Bukowski book Ham on Rye

Source: Ham on Rye

“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”

Charles Bukowski

“it seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”

Charles Bukowski

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

“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.”

Charles Bukowski

“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.”

Charles Bukowski book Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 56
Context: The bus ran along a very narrow strip of cement that stood up out of the water with no guard-rail, no nothing; that's all there was to it. The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty or fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did. Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There's deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgement he'll kill us all. It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? Anything. He could do it. Dump us all. I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn't a real man in the whole shitload.

“If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is.”

Charles Bukowski

“purple does something strange to me”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”

Charles Bukowski book Post Office

Source: Post Office

“the way to create art is to burn and destroy
ordinary concepts and to substitute them
with new truths that run down from the top of the head
and out of the heart”

Charles Bukowski

“if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don't do it.”

Charles Bukowski

“stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Charles Bukowski book The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”

Charles Bukowski

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