Quotes By Person: Charles Bukowski

“sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think,
I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside
remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

-gamblers all, Charles Bukowski

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“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.

me, I writhe in dirty sheets
while staring at blue walls
and nothing.

I have gotten so used to melancholia
that
I greet it like an old
friend.”

-Melancholia, Charles Bukowski

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“An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.”

-Notes From a Dirty Old Man, Charles Bukowski

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“who put this brain inside of me?

it cries
it demands
it says that there is a chance.

it will not say
'no.'”

-The Crunch, Charles Bukowski

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“and the empty bottles like bled corpses
surrounded me with their uselessness”

-The Tragedy of the Leaves, Charles Bukowski

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“Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool.”

-Woman, Charles Bukowski

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“Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding--whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.”

-Woman, Charles Bukowski

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“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire...Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”

-Women, Charles Bukowski

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