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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know Picture Quote #1

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble Picture Quote #1

If you’re going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind Picture Quote #1

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often Picture Quote #1

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a God, politics, ideas, ideals Picture Quote #1

When I’m drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems Picture Quote #1

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Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats Picture Quote #1

I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide Picture Quote #1

It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn’t always there Picture Quote #1

I’ll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love Picture Quote #1

Escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you then when she’s satisfied she’ll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you Picture Quote #1

I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It’s as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous Picture Quote #1

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And getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it Picture Quote #1

When the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this Picture Quote #1

The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left Picture Quote #1

I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard Picture Quote #1

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets... when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through Picture Quote #1

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it Picture Quote #1

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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself Picture Quote #1

I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you Picture Quote #1

All that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble Picture Quote #1

Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned Picture Quote #1

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life Picture Quote #1

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it Picture Quote #1

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If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it Picture Quote #1

They laughed. Things were funny. They weren’t afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things Picture Quote #1

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying Picture Quote #1

Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped Picture Quote #1

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer Picture Quote #1

The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart Picture Quote #1

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Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know (Charles Bukowski Quotes) When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble (Charles Bukowski Quotes) If you’re going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a God, politics, ideas, ideals (Charles Bukowski Quotes) When I’m drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems (Charles Bukowski Quotes) Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide (Charles Bukowski Quotes) It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn’t always there (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I’ll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love (Charles Bukowski Quotes) Escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she’ll embrace you then when she’s satisfied she’ll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It’s as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous (Charles Bukowski Quotes) And getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it (Charles Bukowski Quotes) When the phone rings I too would like to hear words that might ease some of this (Charles Bukowski Quotes) The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I wish to weep but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe but belief is a graveyard (Charles Bukowski Quotes) There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets... when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through (Charles Bukowski Quotes) You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it (Charles Bukowski Quotes) They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself (Charles Bukowski Quotes) I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you (Charles Bukowski Quotes) All that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble (Charles Bukowski Quotes) Gradually I came to realize that my understanding of women goes only as far as the pleasure is concerned (Charles Bukowski Quotes) Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life (Charles Bukowski Quotes) That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it (Charles Bukowski Quotes) If it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it (Charles Bukowski Quotes) They laughed. Things were funny. They weren’t afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things (Charles Bukowski Quotes) That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying (Charles Bukowski Quotes) Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped (Charles Bukowski Quotes) There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer (Charles Bukowski Quotes) The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart (Charles Bukowski Quotes)

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