The telephone is needed for
Emergency purposes only
These people are not
Emergencies, they are
Calamities.
Charles Bukowski
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“Forgive,” they say.
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Women have no
beginning
only continual
flows.
ANA CASTILLO Lose control
Increasing pace
Warped and bewitched
And time to erase
Whatev...
MUSE I promise you
I will try harder
to be better.
I
have battled with things
...
TYLER KNOTT GREGSON They are not demons, not devils...
Worse than that.
They are people.
ANDRZEJ SAPKOWSKI These wrinkles are nothing
These gray hairs are nothing,
This stomach which sags
with...
MARK STRAND The secret tugs at my sleeve.
A child looking for attention.
It is not a big secret.
...
ADELHEID MANEFELDT Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they...
MARKUS ZUSAK Opusculum paedagogicum
The pears are not viols,
Nudes or bottles.
They resemble nothing els...
WALLACE STEVENS How they are all about, these gentlemen
In chamberlains' apparel, stocked and laced,
Like ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Every...
SUZY KASSEM (You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel as...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Words
are powerful
forces of nature.
they are destruction.
they are nouris...
SANOBER KHAN Socrates: So even our walks are dangerous here. But you seem to have avoided the most dangerous thin...
PETER KREEFT THREE BASIC TRUTHS
Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death. SUZY KASSEM In business, ruthlessness is righteousness.
Seldom are there those, whom are ruthlessly r...
JUSTIN K. MCFARLANE BEAU (What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is al...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Take hold of your own life.
See that the whole existence is celebrating.
These trees are n...
OSHO This is an ode to life.
The anthem of the world.
For as there are billions
of differe...
KAMAND KOJOURI who are you
really?
you are not a name
or a height, or a weight
or a gende...
M.K THE SILENT PEOPLE
Some people are so rude,
Living their lives with no concern for ot...
GIORGE LEEDY The Practising Manager’s Growth Mantra
-Growth in an enterprise is created through rema...
AMIT CHATTERJEE Not only have people stopped trying to be
attractive when they are out among other people, but...
MILAN KUNDERA BEWARE OF THOSE
Beware of those who are bitter,
For they will never allow you
T...
SUZY KASSEM The Forest is dark, dearie, The Forest is dark;
The moment you think that you’re lost in the ...
EMORY R. FRIE There are people who break you down by just being them
They need not do anything
<...
MALEBO SEPHODI There are no good tights,
Rare they are, a rare sight.
You roll and roll
Inside a ...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES Friends.
They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend.
Maybe there are just f...
STEPHEN KING You are not white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are not black,
but golden.
You a...
SUZY KASSEM The Master's Sacred Knowledge.
Love is the treasure you should seek!
The grea...
ALLAN RUFUS it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse
or that the hummingbird is so seldom CHARLES BUKOWSKI THE CONSCIOUS HUMAN
You are not just white,
but a rainbow of colors.
You are no...
SUZY KASSEM sometimes when everything seems at
its worst
when all conspires
and gnaws
and th...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The Genius Of The Crowd
there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the avera...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have many lovers.
Where ever I look, I find them.
There is no place devoid of them.
ANSUL NOOR A worker sent a form for salary advance to his manager who refused to sign it based on the reason gi...
NANA AWERE DAMOAH a lot of times
we are angry at other people
for not doing what
we should have done fo...
RUPI KAUR WHAT PEOPLE MAY THINK
Some people cower
and wince and shrink,
owing to fear of<...
PIET HEIN Rory: "People are being serious."
Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course pe...
MAUREEN JOHNSON All good people agree,
And all good people say,
All nice people, like Us, are We
An...
RUDYARD KIPLING for those memories are now
just like these little kittens
I hold in my hands
th...
SANOBER KHAN Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven.
Blessed are they that mour...
ANONYMOUS A Friend
Someone
You're happy to see,
Who's happy to see you.
Someone
You l...
NANCY J. CAVANAUGH YOU ARE JUST
You are not just for the right or left,
but for what is right over the ...
SUZY KASSEM there is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
t...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI For me,
you are fresh water
that falls from trees
when it has stopped raining. For me...
KAMAND KOJOURI Soeur Marie Emelie"
Soeur Marie Emelie
is little and very old:
her eyes are ony...
CARYLL HOUSELANDER But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way:
1) Babies a...
STEVE MARTIN Those who are weak don't fight.
Those who are stronger might fight
for an hour.
Those...
BERTOLT BRECHT Some are sad.
And some are glad.
And some are very, very bad.
Why are the...
DR. SEUSS Love is for the birds.
Honey is for the bees.
And you, my special one.
Are the only o...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Souls"
When two souls fall in love, there is nothing else but the
yearning to be close to ...
LANG LEAV Hey You
You are beautiful.
You are talented.
You are blessed.
You a...
SHANNON L. ALDER Is it odd, my love,
that I envy others
who have not met you
for the intoxication t...
KAMAND KOJOURI There are no good tights,
It´s all such a rare sight...
Gently, I put one in.
Hol...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES The greatest thinkers
have attempted to find
who we are
where we come from
a...
KAMAND KOJOURI Build a house?" exclaimed John.
"For the Wendy," said Curly.
"For Wendy?" John...
J.M. BARRIE And there you are
on the shore,
fitful and thoughtful, trying
to attach them ...
MARY OLIVER Nothing can escape death.
Not even the Sun.
Not even the Earth.
Not even the unive...
HINA YU the greatest Americans
have not been born yet
they are waiting patiently
for the past...
SAUL WILLIAMS Some people
Are worthy of a bullet straight
to the heart because that is where
cruelt...
ELLEN HOPKINS People will think you brilliant
only if you tell them what they know.
To avoid being tho...
LAURA RIDING JACKSON Violinists wear the imprint on their necks with pride
For they are the players of harmony.
KAMAND KOJOURI BLESSINGS ARE IMMEASURABLE
You can
Lose a child
Or a parent,
The lov...
SUZY KASSEM Do you know your Bible?'
'Uh, not very well.'
'It merits study, it contains very practical...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN never
trust anyone
who says
they do not see color.
this means
to them,...
NAYYIRAH WAHEED There are people.
There are stories.
The people think they shape the stories, ...
ALAN MOORE Love has no opposite.
Hate, fear, are not love’s opposites;
they are its denial.
IVAN M. GRANGER People learn when they are ready to learn.
Are you ready?
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Things you wanna believe,
Things that aren't true,
JAMES ALLEN America is a dream.
The poet says it was promises.
The people say it is promises—...
LANGSTON HUGHES Base words are uttered only by the base
And can for such at once be understood;
But noble ...
W.H. AUDEN There will always be those
who say you are too young and delicate
to make anything happen ...
CLEMENTINE VON RADICS The Type
Everyone needs a place. It shouldn't be inside of someone else. -Richard Siken SARAH KAY sweet spring is your
time is my time is our
time for springtime is lovetime
and viva ...
E.E. CUMMINGS Stop thinking, and end your problems.
What difference between yes and no?
What difference ...
LAO TZU It has rained for five days
running
the world is
a round puddle
of sunless water...
AUDRE LORDE Don’t you dare say these times are hollow
Just because there are storms raging by.
Just ...
MELITA TESSY When you think you are ready you are not ready.
When you are not ready you are ready...
DEYTH BANGER Volunteers
Many will be shocked to find,
When the day of judgement nears,
That there's a s...
ANON. Your fangs are showing, Miss Lyndon."
"Are they?" she asked, reaching up to touch her fac...
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For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon...
AUDRE LORDE The following are not my words, i have seen it some where . But i wish to share it here for every on...
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"Not just ordinary stairs," Skulduggery told her as he le...
DEREK LANDY Dividing earth and sky
is not the right way
to think about this wholeness.
It only al...
WISłAWA SZYMBORSKA I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Come to me.
Why must you ruin this moment?
You are burdened with thought.
Burdened wi...
KAMAND KOJOURI They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate:
I think they have n...
ERNEST DOWSON When words run dry,
he does not try,
nor do I.
We are on par.
He jus...
LANG LEAV The celebrations
Of secret nonmeetings are empty,
Unspoken conversations,
Unuttered w...
ANNA AKHMATOVA All these Muslims are all the same.
All these Muslims are all terrorists.
All these Muslim...
HARRY WHITEWOLF Sending out the Disciples
Luke 10
1: AFTER THESE THINGS THE LORD APPOINTED O...
SWAMI DHYAN GITEN Westboro is a tough team, they defeated Medway, who are perennial state champs, already
...
BOB MURRAY Love Was
Love Will Be
But Most of All,
Love is.
Life Cannot Be Without It
I...
CINDY MARTINUSEN COLOMA THE THREE LAWS OF ALL
You are never to worship a living soul,
Except for three entit...
SUZY KASSEM What time is the funeral"
" Two pm."
"Are you going, Sergeant?"
"Y...
ROSALIE HAM I admire strength but I fall in love with vulnerability.
I admire strong people. People who sta...
DRISHTI BABLANI
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...
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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 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.
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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 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.
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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.
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 I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI