“a life can change in a tenth of a second. or sometimes it can take 70 years.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories
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Famous Charles Bukowski Quotes
“it does seem the more we drink the better the words go.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: Pulp: Charles Bukowski's Final Hardboiled Noir Comedy – Lady Death, Aliens, and the Absurd
“Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.”
“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.”
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
Source: Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990
“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”