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Charles Bukowski
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
“my mother, poor fish,wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times aweek, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!why do...
“It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself fe...
“What is your advice to young writers?”“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
“when I am feelinglowall i have to do iswatch my catsand mycouragereturns”
“People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be.”
“That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passio...
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
“Find what you love and let it kill you.”
“Life's as kind as you let it be.”
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming f...
“nothing can saveyouexceptwriting.it keeps the wallsfromfailing.”
“the courage it took to get out of bed eachmorningto face the same thingsover and overwasenormous.”
“the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from ...
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the lis...
“girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerab...
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
“there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimesw...
“great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso th...
“My Dear,Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you...
“If I never see you againI will always carry youinsideoutsideon my fingertipsand at brain edgesand in centerscentersof w...
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
“It began as a mistake.”
“having nothing to struggleagainstthey have nothing to strugglefor.”
“When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there w...
“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
“Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.”
“some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.”
“He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bri...
“the tired sunsets and the tiredpeople -it takes a lifetime to die andno time atall.”
“the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever”
charles bukowski
“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
“To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frighten...
“She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously...
“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”
“A yet women -good women- frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to...
