Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

All Lonely Sad Angry Funny Spiritual 813 quotes · page 21 of 50

Poet, Novelist

Determined

“I was fighting a small fight of my own which wasn't leading anywhere-but like a man with a bent spoon trying to dig through a cement wall I knew that a small fight was better than quitting: it kept the heart alive.”

Heart Fighting Wall

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Wise

“Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.”

Men Mean Style

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Adventurous

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”

Hot Hermits

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Confident

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

Men Lucky

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Lonely

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.”

Airplane Heard

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Angry

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”

Running Love You Car

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Angry

“I call 'em complaining machines. Things are never right with a guy to them. And man, when you throw that hysteria in there ... forget it. I gotta get out, get in the car, and go. Anywhere. Get a cup of coffee somewhere. Anywhere. Anything but another woman. I guess they're just built different, right?”

Women Coffee Hysteria

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Motivated

“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world.”

Running Moving School

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Motivated

“to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs.”

Fighting Minutes

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Angry

“..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long time. Writers only like to sniff their own turds. I am one of those. I don't even like to talk to writers, look at them or worse, listen to them. And the worst is to drink with them, they slobber all over themselves, really look piteous, look like they are searching for the wing of the mother. I'd rather think about death than about other writers. Far more pleasant.”

Thinking Mother Wings

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Sad

“There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.”

Sleep Air Tunnels

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Funny

“escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you.”

Art Blood Drawing

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