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“I held her
wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred,
centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and
sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted.
there was no creature living as foul as I
and all my poems were
false.”

Charles Bukowski

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

Charles Bukowski book Women

Source: Women

“there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had no feeling for the
things so many others
needed.
it let me alone.”

Charles Bukowski

“I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.”

Charles Bukowski

“but isn't there always
one good thing
to look back on?

think of
how many cups of coffee we
drank together.”

Charles Bukowski

Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way

“And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.”

Charles Bukowski book Hollywood

Source: Hollywood

“I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.”

Charles Bukowski

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

“the masses are everywhere
they know how to do things:
they have sane and deadly angers
for sane and deadly
things.”

Charles Bukowski book Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.”

Charles Bukowski

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. 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