Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up there besides the cunt, there might be something really marvellous this time - it could be a cunt, but it could be - it's just something about looking at the legs just makes you - I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the cunt, I'm just saying, you always imagine - some extra magic when you're looking at the outside portion of the female.
Charles Bukowski
Related You can forgive a young cunt anything. A young cunt doesn't have to have brains. They're better with... HENRY MILLER If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it,... VIRGINIA EUWER WOLFF Capitalism is not wicked or cruel when the commodity is the whore; profit is not wicked or cruel whe... ANDREA DWORKIN Cock is just another word for 'fool.' But you call someone a cunt, well..." The girl smiled. "You're... JAY KRISTOFF Even if you said something, there would still be things untold, and there were things that would bre... WATARU WATARI Wherever you are, be all there. CRAIG GROESCHEL If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma... ROGER A. CARAS If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma... ROGER CARAS Each instinct and passion of man is amoral; it is only the abuse of these passions that makes them w... FULTON J. SHEEN Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just... CHOIRE SICHA There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At le... L.M. MONTGOMERY If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but ther... ROGER CARAS I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, i... FRANK BLACK We're looking at it saying, is this something that Greg's image goes with, or something that would c... ERIN HUNTER When you talk to everyone, you just get the feeling we're going to be able to get something done at ... ARMON BASSETT There might be a time when they need some help. Then you just jump in and you do something. It might... BARNEY ROLING This was completely unprovoked. It really could have been anybody. It was a random act of violence. ... KATE WAGNER At the height of depression,the moment when you are about to jump of the cliff something happens som... DELETE ACCOUNT I knew we could do it. People might not believe us when we say we knew we could do it when the seaso... KAMMRON TAYLOR He told me that there might be something wrong with the score. LINDA FAILES There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN You would think on the outside looking in that it might be. But again, it's a crap shoot. You just n... BRENT BARRY If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, a... TAVI GEVINSON Disney Hall is truly astonishingly beautiful. There is something about those silver petals that just... EMANUEL AX There might be lots more, or there could be nothing until the end of May. That's what makes it excit... COREY ELLINGSON There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better. DAVID KNOPFLER I love hidden things. When you buy something with quality, you like the inside to be as beautiful as... MINDY GROSSMAN “Nothing is really yours, because there is nothing you could ever lose. In order to lose something... RYAN MARKS Life's most beautiful and inspiring moments occur at 3am, just prowling, looking for nothing but alw... CRIMETHINC. One night this guy actually said to me, "Your legs must be tired, because you've been running throug... JENNIFER ESPOSITO There's nothing wrong with being comfortable in your own skin. If anything, it can be really bea... EMILY RATAJKOWSKI I don't want to talk about those things. I see the worst in people. I don't need to look past seeing... PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON There was something about my face,she said, that she couldn't stand. Something about my eyes, the wa... TAHEREH MAFI There was just something shady about him. He just was looking at me... and I just, something just ki... BONNIE UGLAND Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your adverti... WILLIAM BERNBACH aliens are living on earth for along time,for those who think im talking about another race youre wr... RAJA Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Your day is like clay. Some may mold it to something beautiful or to something you may not want. But... JOHN B. BEJO How can you take such a risk? This could mean anything! It could mean nothing at all! Haven’t you ... JASON ELLIS The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking o... SUSAN SONTAG You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty. ALICE WALKER San Francisco is my home. That's the love of my life right there. Thinking that there could be a pos... BARRY BONDS How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ... MILNE, A. A. A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the sho... COCO CHANEL The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the the... HAYLEY MILLS We're still trying to determine what the exact risk might be. We're looking at a number of different... CHRISTINE PEARSON After I lost my legs, all I wanted to do was snowboard again. I remember spending an entire year on ... AMY PURDY What dinosaur traits are missing from an ostrich? The ostrich has a toothless beak, but there are mu... GEORGE M. CHURCH Reader, do you think it is a terrible thing to hope when there is really no reason to hope at all? O... KATE DICAMILLO Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT It might be donated to charity or it might be held at auction. Or if it's something in bad condition... LESLIE ALLEN When you're looking at just one spot in the sky and something appears, you don't know if it was form... CRAIG HEINSELMAN It could achieve a lot if everyone in Burma could stop saying something is good if it is not good, o... AUNG SAN SUU KYI Aye. Freaky iffen you ask me. But guessing that what Terrible like, aye. What he deserve sneaking of... STACIA KANE I'm not saying I'm definitely coming back, and I'm not saying I'm definitely not. I just don't know,... CURTIS SUMPTER There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My ... BEBE NEUWIRTH Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi... J.D. SALINGER We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that... RICHARD BELLZON There should always be something gratuitous about art, just as there seems to be, according to the n... JOHN UPDIKE Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be s... WILLIAM BERNBACH we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI It'll be fun just to get my start again and once again playing against a legend I grew up admiring. ... REX GROSSMAN -Elle, we might not know much about each other, and I might not be there, and you might not be here,... ASHLEY POSTON I could see why Archimedes got all excited. There was nothing finer than the feeling that came rushi... JEANNETTE WALLS It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has ... TOM STOPPARD If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the... HAYLEY MILLS There is nothing as fun as making a cultural splash with a movie. Sometimes the splash happens, like... JON FAVREAU I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light th... NICOLE KIDMAN Bitch." "Slut." "Whore." "Cunt." I kicked Joyce in the shin. I draw the line at ... JANET EVANOVICH Well, Well, Well, its certainly a compelling provocative exciting delicious to think about idea, sma... JEFF GOLDBLUM I've had a terrible time with some of the members just getting them to think there was something out... CLARENCE EHLERS And there he sat, looking outwardly composed, and all she could think of was that pond. Because some... PRISCILLA GLENN And there was a beautiful view But nobody could see. Cause everybody on the island Was s... LAURIE ANDERSON They were saying that there was something wrong with Lynx and Lamb playing at the fair. APRIL GAEDE If you think there is something wrong with Bipolar People you might want to Google the Famous Bipola... STANLEY VICTOR PASKAVICH If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because the... BETTY SMITH There could have been something wrong with the door, or it could have been a faulty switch or misinf... JOE HODAS By looking Emma Watson smile pictures you just see different smiles which you even don't realise. On... DEYTH BANGER That's a shame," said Bert, "to run out of crackers before you've run out of emergency. JAMES A. OWEN I love to stare at people. I like staring at beautiful things. I guess it's better this way. Cause w... DEVLIN PAJARON Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA I did and do believe, after all that I've seen and done, that if you project yourself into the mass ... DANIEL MENDELSOHN My eyes hurt... but there is something more... I can't stop listening to horror.... now I am going t... DEYTH BANGER The world is looking for something new, and that could be you. Be yourself, be original SOTONYE ANGA For a contest like that, there has to be something there. That's my big 'GO!' sign. It just makes me... KRISTEN WALKER Hell begins with a grumbling mood, always complaining, always blaming others... but you are still di... C.S. LEWIS Darling, the legs aren't so beautiful, I just know what to do with them. MARLENE DIETRICH What do you mean less than nothing? I don't think there is any such thing as less than nothing. Noth... E.B. WHITE I think tights make a comeback out of necessity every season: you can only go so far with naked legs... ANNA KENDRICK Sometimes one of us might be missing because we might be away or something, but there's always f... BRUCE JOHNSTON If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something ... WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER Just once, I would like there to be something special about being the kid stuck in the middle. KAREN TAYLEUR There is just something to be said for the value of tradition, and even our faith is not just someth... DAVID HESS I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER It doesn't look good. If the cell just anchors there, we might see something like last week. NORMAN HUI I liked the idea of having actual magic performed as stage magic, so you could assume that it was ju... ERIN MORGENSTERN Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT My legs felt like Jell-o out there. I did not wrestle well at all. I just had to wake up. JEFF SOLOMON
More Charles Bukowski
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac... CHARLES BUKOWSKI the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with... CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the old days, before I was married, or knew a lot of women, I would just pull down all the shades... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be? CHARLES BUKOWSKI Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Do you hate people?” “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 CHARLES BUKOWSKI There's nothing like privacy. You know, I like people. It's nice that they might like my books and a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each d... CHARLES BUKOWSKI being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I've never been lonely. I've been in a room -- I've felt suicidal. I've been depressed. I've felt aw... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. 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. CHARLES BUKOWSKI For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politic... 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... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the W... 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 CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don'... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writers have to put up with this editor thing; it is ageless and eternal and wrong. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times lo... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way. CHARLES BUKOWSKI When everything works best, it's not because you chose writing but because writing chose you. It... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. 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... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shak... 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. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. T... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good,... 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. CHARLES BUKOWSKI The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones ... 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. CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfrie... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever... CHARLES BUKOWSKI It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there. CHARLES BUKOWSKI what matters most is how well you walk through the fire CHARLES BUKOWSKI Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic. CHARLES BUKOWSKI We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it d... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll sho... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the loc... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's g... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. CHARLES BUKOWSKI An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of every... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Humanity, you never had it to begin with. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have not worked out my poems with a careful will, falling rather on haphazard and blind formulatio... 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. CHARLES BUKOWSKI You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or poli... 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 or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into th... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone. 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 CHARLES BUKOWSKI I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll ... 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