“...having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.”
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.”
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“And don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.”
“The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable”
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
“If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.”
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing”
“The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.”
“No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less.”
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
Source: Hollywood
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
Source: Ham On Rye
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
Source: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
“The wisest thing to do if you’re living in hell is to make yourself comfortable.”
“Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.”
“I'm very clever at hiding poems perhaps more clever than I am at writing them.”
Source: Women
Source: Hollywood
“I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time.”
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
Source: The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993
“Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.”
“To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”