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I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ra...
ELIZABETH PETERS My favourite books are Charles Bukowski's 'Post Office' and 'Women.'
ALEX PETTYFER "she’ mad but she’
magic. there’ no lie in her fire.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI you fall into the mirror,
come through the other
side
staring at a lightbulb.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a pro does as well as he can within what
he has set out to do
and a madman
does excep...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Christmas poem to a man in jail
hello Bill Abbott:
I appreciate your passing around ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI and the color in my eyes
has gone back into the sea.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the whole world is caught in her glance
and at last
the universe is
magnificent.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around wai...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some l...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So there was this big slug of decaying material that introduced a big slug of nutrients into the sys...
AARON ADAMS A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI during my worst times
on the park benches
in the jails
or living with
whores
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Nëse një ditë më dëgjoni të flasë për dashuri, e yje... ju lutem, më vrisni!
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's nothing unusual about love.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The upshot of all this is, while we didn't crawl the entire web, we think we crawled the parts of th...
STEVEN GRIBBLE When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son...
DAN AUERBACH Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had hi...
MARY STANTON Ne të gjithë jemi duke shkuar për të vdekur, të gjithë ne, çfarë cirku! Kjo vetë duhet të ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI POZZO:
I am blind.
(Silence.)
ESTRAGON:
Perhaps he can see into the future.
SAMUEL BECKETT Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We got into a little bit of foul trouble and they crawled back into it.
JEFF STARR Simon Sparks was an oozing slug of a man poured neatly into a three-piece suit.
C. ROBERT CARGILL Like a spider in its web, a vibration anywhere
is felt everywhere.
LOIS FARFEL STARK The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; they will both fall into the ditch...
PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The panic crawled throughout his limbs like a million tiny newborn spiders.
CALVIN DEMMER I crawled into my book and pulled the pages over my head...
LAURIE R. KING The issue in Web accessibility is the fact that blind and visually-impaired people need the single b...
JOE CLARK the flesh covers the bone
and they put a mind
in there and
sometimes a soul,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And now, beloved, through the crackling sea
we return like blind birds
PABLO NERUDA Augustus, perhaps you’d like to share your fears with the group.”
“My fears?”
“Y...
JOHN GREEN sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI They be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the
blind, both shall fall into the ditc...
BIBLE Amazing grace! how sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost but now a...
JOHN NEWTON If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
MATTHEW 15:14 If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the
blind lead the blind, both shall f...
BIBLE Like a sculptor, if necessary,
carve a friend out of stone.
Realize that your inner sight ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI my grandfather would have loved to have met you," Charles told her huskily. "He would have called yo...
PATRICIA BRIGGS Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
CAPTAIN BEEFHEART There were still few rules at Down House, and Charles was not very good at enforcing the ones he and...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the len...
SARAH DESSEN And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
BIBLE And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
ANONYMOUS He might have crawled up into the airing cupboard and died, but I mustn't get my hopes up.
J.K. ROWLING When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into -- matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into - matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR When the blind lead the blind, no wonder they both fall into / matrimony.
GEORGE FARQUHAR Wasn’t allowed to have pets. I killed my pet cockroach when it crawled into my ear.
KATHERINE MCINTYRE It is only the story...that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of ...
CHINUA ACHEBE One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight
Back to back they faced ...
ANON. I have realized over time that I missed the mark with HyperCard. I grew up in a box-centric culture ...
BILL ATKINSON One minute, you're a slug. And the next minute, you're a hero.
ED BELFOUR If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit. (Matthew 15:14)
BIBLE Like delicate lace,
So the threads intertwine,
Oh, gossamer web
Of wond'rous design!<...
BILL WATTERSON Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
KATHERINE DIVOLIS I like Ray Charles, though.
KYLE NELSON A lot of people like to go to a Web page. I like businesses to have a Web page.
FRANK POLIMENE If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you ...
MARGARET ATWOOD I didn't know I was about to be left with her idea of me; with her idea of my goodness pinned onto m...
MARGARET ATWOOD How I would like to have them back, those pointless afternoons - the boredom, the aimlessness, the u...
MARGARET ATWOOD In case you're wondering, vanity never ends.
MARGARET ATWOOD Can I come in?
No! I'm in a towel!
I'm blind!
JAMES PATTERSON A garden path,' write the landscape architects Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell, and William Tu...
REBECCA SOLNIT Like a sea-beast crawled forth, that on a shelf/ Of rock or sand reposeth, there to sun itself.
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Glass is sand and sand is glass!
The ant dancing blind as blind ants do
on the lip of the ...
STEVEN ERIKSON You’ve got about as much charm as a dead slug.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you understand how there could be any writing in a spider's web?"
"Oh, no," said Dr. Dorian....
E.B. WHITE The language we use can subtly influence our thinking. […]
On the face of it, the term ...
JEREMY KEITH He is, however,” Amos continued, “keeping a constant rail gun lock on the Israel’s reactor.”...
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KEVIN GORINSHTEYN I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench an...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You fit into me
like a hook into an eye
a fish hook
an open eye
MARGARET ATWOOD Then she wanted to get out, so he just tipped over the trolley and she crawled out.
VERA UYS Nobody's like a Champ Bailey or a Charles Woodson that came out with the hype like that.
DARRELL JACKSON love is blind
and lovers cannot see
the pretty follies
that themselves commit
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Ray Charles, in his own way, it's like at the beginning, Ray Charles changed American music, not...
TAYLOR HACKFORD They were looking all over for where the smell was coming from. A squid had crawled into their boat ...
TERRY KOHL Snowden said carefully, 'I've been unable to get in touch with the person I thought might know about...
JOSH LANYON This is what it had come to. Glitter. How he thought glitter had been a good idea, the Gods only kne...
K.F. BREENE Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter.
"...
DARYNDA JONES Even a blind man could see she is beautiful.
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“I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI when I am feeling
low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
CHARLES BUKOWSKI animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Find what you love and let it kill you.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show yo...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sigh...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, in...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, c...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Never get out of bed before noon
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI when we were kids
laying around the lawn
on our
bellies
we often talked CHARLES BUKOWSKI We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What is your advice to young writers?”
“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't writ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What my character is or how many jails I have lounged in, or wards or walls or wassails, how many lo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI you boys can keep your virgins
give me hot old women in high heels
with asses that forgo...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies,...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love wha...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him ou...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense
and are not easy to fool...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from other...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poetry is what happens when nothing else can.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I care for you, darling, I love you,
the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI what matters most is how well you walk through the fire
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now THAT'S what I call art.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI people diminish me;
the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Everything else just kept picking and picking, hacking away. And nothing was interesting, nothing. T...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI What a pitiful mass of dangerous nothing
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
a space
and even ...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Beasts bounding through time.
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI dogs and angels are not
very far apart
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench an...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continu...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they simply never understand,
do they,
that sometimes solitude
is
one of the mos...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My flesh looked like it wasn't trying. It looked like it hated being part of me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Style is the answer to everything.
A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm becoming softer and softer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Uno se puede encariñar de muchas cosas aparte del sexo pero es mejor si el sexo está presente de a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there are worse things
than being alone
but it often takes
decades to realize this CHARLES BUKOWSKI your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had n...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Thirty- eight years old and he was finished. He sipped at the coffee and remembered where he had gon...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wanted the whole world or nothing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You have to die a few times before you can really
live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My ambition is handicapped by laziness
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. Th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is a time to stop reading, there is a time to STOP trying to WRITE, there is a time to kick th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with; something better t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there
CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are worse things than being alone,
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show....
CHARLES BUKOWSKI that your power of command
with simple language was
one of the magnificent things of
...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Cats tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly matter...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI girls
please give your
bodies and your
lives
to
the young men
who
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess I´m too used to sitting in a small room and making
words do a few things. I see enoug...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI So be careful when you bend over.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are
human beings about
there is never going to be
any peace
for...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with
belief, deluded myself with love
tricked myself w...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had
something to do with
the politics of the
thing.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time
CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp.
I
am.
still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking
up and down
this room
smoking my cigars
taking hits of my <...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread
CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need
CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read
so that I will not have to look at
the people.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI