Charles Bukowski Quotes - Page 33

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• t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

  Charles Bukowski

  Stress, Madness, Daily Life

  Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

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• Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dying, Easy, Should

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• Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!

  Charles Bukowski

  Kissing, Men, Mad

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• the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

  Charles Bukowski

  Dog, Moving, Light

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

  Charles Bukowski

  Special, Facts, Needs

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.296, Zondervan

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• The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

  Charles Bukowski

  Real, Men, Blood

  Source: bukowski.net

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• I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drunk, Used, Alleys

  Source: bukowski.net

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• Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

  Charles Bukowski

  Average, Poet

  Source: bukowski.net

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• Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Strong, Long

  Source: bukowski.net

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• I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

  Charles Bukowski

  Notebook, Thinking, Ideas

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

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• I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

  Charles Bukowski

  Young, Wells

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

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• I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Agony, Sweat

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• A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Mean, Night

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

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