Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“life itself is not the miracle. that pain should be so constant, that's the miracle -”
“we had such tremendous fun and much agony together for some years”
“she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty”
“I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.”
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
“there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds”
“love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.”
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
Source: Ham On Rye
“I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.”
“He had long nostril hairs, powerfully intimidating, like an unscheduled nightmare.”
“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: Ham On Rye
“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”
Source: On Cats
“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”
“"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."”
“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter.”
“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”