Source: New Poems Book Three
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”
“too often, the only escape is sleep”
Source: Il grande
“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”
“I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.”
“We’ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care.”
Source: New Poems Book Three
Source: Ham On Rye
“we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Selected Letters Volume 2: 1965-1970
“Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.”
“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”
Source: New Poems Book Two
Source: You Get So Alone at Times
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
Source: Ham On Rye
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
Source: Barfly: the continuing saga of Henry Chinaski
“Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.”
Source: On Cats
“Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.”
“Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.”
Source: Women
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
Source: Women
“Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
Source: Hollywood
“Slavery was never abolished, it was only extended to include all the colors.”
“The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“The human heart, as of course we all know is essentially good”
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch
“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it”
Source: Erections, ejaculations, exhibitions, and general tales of ordinary madness