“The writer has no responsibility other than to jack off in bed alone and write a good page.”
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: Women
“To be young is the only religion.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
“There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses
Source: Ham On Rye
“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”
Source: Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness
Source: Hollywood
“If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.”
“some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: You Get So Alone at Times
“agony sometimes changes form but it never ceases for anybody.”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
“I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.”
“Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad”
Source: sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.”