It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
Charles Bukowski
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The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must spea...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 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 I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI the best part was
pulling down the
shades
stuffing the doorbell
with rags
p...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any
WOODY ALLEN Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any
BILLY CRYSTAL Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.
JOHN CALLAHAN 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 if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
JULIA SOREL Holding hands in love is underrated, while sex is overrated. Don't you think so?
KIRAN JOSHI Is sex dirty? Only if it is done right. (All You Wanted To Know About Sex)
WOODY ALLEN A thing is only as great as the amount a person is willing to risk for it. If you are not willing to...
MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN 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 A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, bu...
OLIVER HERFORD When I recorded my solo album, 'Keep It Hid,' in 2008, I'd gotten more interested in son...
DAN AUERBACH There has never been any great tangible thing without any minute or great intangible thing. The grea...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Anal sex is anal sex. It doesn't make any difference whether you're a woman or a man. It is the act ...
LARRY PARHAM Size is definitely overrated. Speed is the great equalizer.
GENE CHIZIK nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI 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 A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The light of a great man shines for generations to come.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Getting someone drunk or stoned before sex isn't foreplay - its rape!
TERENCE T. GORSKI If sex is a skill, with its attendant expectations, frustrations, and failures, you are graded on pe...
RON BRACKIN There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merci...
PAUL DAVID WASHER It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his fr...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The only thing that can set a man free from any chains is the knowledge of Truth.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For wa...
VICTOR HUGO Oh, please, spare me the male ego. I'm not repulsed by sex, and I can reach an orgasm as well as any...
SANDRA HILL Hypothetically, if the only choice you got is to do the wrong thing, then its not really a wrong thi...
VLADIMIR LEM We, women, are not receptacles. Sex should not feel like a burden, duty, or chore. Sex is also not o...
MARTHA LEE Cabinet officers don't live in a vacuum. Just because they had business dealings with someone in the...
PAUL ARONSOHN The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "g...
MARCEL PROUST False hope is a terrible thing, if its the only thing keeping you alive you'll be dead by dawn.
CHARLIE RAE Sex is only boring if you are.
MERLYN GABRIEL MILLER I thought we were a real love relationship. I did. I was very invested in love, but it was just this...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has ...
H. G. WELLS Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deservi...
MARCUS AURELIUS The pre-human creature from which man evolved was unlike any other living thing in its malicious vic...
ERIC HOFFER By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a p...
SOCRATES The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, b...
CAMERON CONAWAY Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of do...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doub...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.
BARRY HUMPHRIES Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right.
WOODY ALLEN Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right
WOODY ALLEN A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that ...
WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM We thought sex was free. Sex is not free. There's a price to be paid emotionally, physically, ev...
WILLIAM H. MACY If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF Any sex outside of the marriage bond between a man and a woman is violating God's law.
JERRY FALWELL Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
FANNIE HURST The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE People will understand that getting a piece of the cake is better than not getting any cake at all.
CAROLINA MILANESI We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adole...
ORIANA FALLACI You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It's not overrated. There's a reason for all those ...
SARAH DESSEN As long as there is a chance of the world getting through its
troubles, I hold that a reasonable ma...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Sex is only a tool in love, not love itself.
ABHIJIT NASKAR I think the age thing is overrated. I think it is all about guys having certain experiences and if a...
CHRIS PETERSEN If there's one thing "music scene" is good at doing, its only making "news"!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI In advertising, sex sells. But only if you're selling sex.
JEF I. RICHARDS Alex Suchon is a great example to all other young athletes that it's not only a matter of getting an...
WIL NICHOL If a man brags about his sex life he's a stud, but if a woman brags about her sex life she's a slut.
ANTHONY LICCIONE Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
VICTOR HUGO Romantic love, or sex, is the only good thing in a life that is being lived in a dark way.
ALAN FURST I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER Once you pay the bills, money is the most overrated thing in the world
ROSS PEROT Kindness and politeness are not overrated at all. They're underused.
TOMMY LEE JONES You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Before the battle they had been discussing whether there might be life after death, and Windham and ...
JENNY UGLOW If only you can add just one great and distinctive thing to your life each day, you shall surely not...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of...
MARK TWAIN With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.
PAULO COELHO Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man. Any...
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with th...
JANE HARRISON The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.
STEVE COOGAN
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low
all i have to do is
watch my cats
and my
courage
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but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
grav...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it clin...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
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“Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
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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,...
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wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to...
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but I'm too tough for him,
I say, sta...
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the only reason I fucked L. is because you fucked
Z. ...
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the longer I sit and listen to them
the more empty I feel but I don't...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI A i urreni njerëzit?
Unë nuk i urrej ata ... Unë vetëm ndjehen mirë kur ata nuk janë për...
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our lips raw with love
and how you gave me
everything y...
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a space
and even ...
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unless being still would
drive you to...
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Van Gogh writing his brother for paints
Hemingway tes...
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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.
...
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that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
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A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing
To do...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI y la fama y el amor
nada más que un truco para atenuar nuestra herida.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI las palabras bonitas
como las mujeres bonitas
se arrugan y mueren.
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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.
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live.
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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.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"
"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there...
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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
...
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I
think that the
world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just
cats...
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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