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in this land some of us fuck more than we die but most of us die better than we fuck

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death Fuck

Finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death

Dying should come easy:like a freight train youdon't hear whenyour back isturned.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death

well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going to get you

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death

as long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).all you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.

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I killed four flies while waiting. Damn, death was everywhere. Man, bird, beast, reptile, rodent, insect, fish didn't have a chance. The fix was in. I didn't know what to do about it. I got depressed. You know, I see a boy at the supermarket, he's packing my groceries, then I see him sticking himself into his own grave along with the toilet paper, the beer and the chicken breasts.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death Life Realism

I see a brightportionunder the overhead lightthat shades intodarknessand then into darkerdarknessand I can't see beyond that.

~ Charles Bukowski

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shot in the eyeshot in the brainshot in the assshot like a flower in the danceamazing how death wins hands downamazing how much credence is given to idiot forms oflifeamazing how laughter has been drowned outamazing how viciousness is such a constantI must soon declare my own war on their warI must hold to my last piece of groundI must protect the small space I have made that hasallowed me lifemy life not their deathmy death not their deaththis place, this time, nowI vow to the sunthat I will laugh the good laugh once againin the perfect place of meforever.their death not my life.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death Inspirational Life

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Bukowski Death Spanish

I believe that to be the world's greatest livingwriterthere must be somethingterribly wrong with you.I don't even want to be the world's greatestdead writer.just being dead would be fairenough.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Bukowski Death Poetry Writing

I'm one of those who doesn't think there is much differencebetween an atomic scientist and a man who cleans the crappersexcept for the luck of the draw - parents with enough money to point you toward a moregenerous death.of course, some come through brilliantly, butthere are thousands, millions of others, bottled up, keptfrom even the most minute chance to realize their potential.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death Luck Money Potential

waitingin a life full of little storiesfor a death to come

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Death Intro Life Micropoem Stories Waiting

I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, that guy'snuts.out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.

~ Charles Bukowski

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the best part waspulling down theshadesstuffing the doorbellwith ragsputting the phonein therefrigeratorand going to bedfor 3 or 4days. and the next bestpartwasnobody evermissedme.

~ Charles Bukowski

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Sometimes things are just what they seem to be and that's all there is to it.

~ Charles Bukowski

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sometimes when everything seems atits worstwhen all conspiresand gnawsand the hours, days, weeksyearsseem wasted – stretched there upon my bedin the darklooking upward at the ceilingi get what many will consider anobnoxious thought:it’s still nice to beBukowski.

~ Charles Bukowski

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I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.

~ Charles Bukowski

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it's so easy to be a poetand so hard to be a man.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Poetry

And then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Poetry

during my worst timeson the park benchesin the jailsor living withwhoresI always had this certaincontentment-I wouldn't call ithappiness-it was more of an innerbalancethat settled forwhatever was occuringand it helped in thefactoriesand when relationshipswent wrongwith thegirls.it helpedthrough thewars and thehangoversthe backalley fightsthehospitals.to awaken in a cheap roomin a strange city andpull up the shade-this was the craziest kind ofcontentmentand to walk across the floorto an old dresser with acracked mirror-see myself, ugly,grinning at it all.what matters most ishow well youwalk through thefire.

~ Charles Bukowski

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If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Charles Bukowski Humanity Poetry

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Conversation Poetry Writing

where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die

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Charles Bukowski Bukowski Poetry

we must bringour own lightto thedarkness.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Darkness Journal Light Literature Quotes Poetry

The place trembled with sound. I didn't need to do anything. They would do it all. But you had to be careful. Drunk as they were they could immediately detect any false gesture, any false word. You could never underestimate an audience. They had paid to get in; they had paid for drinks; they intended to get something and if you didn't give it to them they'd run you right into the ocean.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Performance Poetry Reading

I remember yoursaying: make itor break it.neither happened anditwon't.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Bukowski Poetry

I wait on my fix:I am a poetry junkie.

~ Charles Bukowski

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Jag föddes för att kränga rosor på de dödas avenyer

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Poetry

crawled like a blind slug into the web

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Bukowski Poetry

great writers are indecent peoplethey live unfairlysaving the best part for paper.good human beings save the worldso that bastards like me can keep creating art,become immortal.if you read this after I am deadit means I made it.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writers Writing

the writing of somemenis like a vast bridgethat carries youoverthe many thingsthat claw and tear.The Wine of Forever

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writing

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Fear Inspiration Writer S Block Writing

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writers Block Writing

if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writing

There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Bukowski Rats Writing

What is your advice to young writers?Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.What is your advice to older writers?If you're still alive, you don't need any advice.What is the impulse that makes you create a poem?What makes you take a shit?

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Advice Writing

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writing

There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writing

There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold very few copies, the writer thought he was great. If what the writer wrote never was published and he didn't have enough the money to publish it himself, then he thought he was truly great. The truth, however, was there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers had the most confidence, the least self-doubt. Anyway, writers were to be avoided, and I tried to avoid them, but it was almost impossible. They hoped for some sort of brotherhood, some kind of togetherness. None of it had anything to do with writing, none of it helped at the typewriter.

~ Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski Writers Writing

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity.

~ Charles Bukowski

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