Charles Bukowski Quotes About Magic

Quotes about: Magic

• I never write in the daytime. It's like running through the shopping mall with your clothes off. Everybody can see you. At night ... that's when you pull the tricks ... magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Writing, Night

• It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

  Charles Bukowski

  Pain, Book, Reading

• ‎"she’ mad but she’ magic. there’ no lie in her fire.

  Charles Bukowski

  Lying, Fire, Mad

  Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

• she’s mad, but she’s magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Mad, Magic

  Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

• I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

  Charles Bukowski

  Quilts, Book, Reading

  Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.166, Canongate Books

• The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us

  Charles Bukowski

  Past, Magic, Helping

  Charles Bukowski (2007). “Come On In!: New Poems”, p.268, Canongate Books

• magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it

  Charles Bukowski

  Magic, Trying, May

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.317, Canongate Books

• I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking.

  Charles Bukowski

  Magic, Poison, Asking

  Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You”

• Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar.

  Charles Bukowski

  Laughing, Magic, Lines

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

• There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything. You have to find out by what happens to you, how you will react. I'll have to use a strange term here... "good." I don't know where it comes from, but I feel that there's an ultimate strain of goodness born in each of us. I don't believe in God, but I believe in this "goodness" like a tube running through our bodies. It can be nurtured. It's always magic, when on a freeway packed with traffic, a stranger makes room for you to change lanes... it gives you hope.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Believe, Thinking

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