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My dear,
Find what you love and let it kill you.
Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness.
Let it kill you and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it’s much better to be killed by a lover.
~ Falsely yours


Charles Bukowski

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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 I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI