Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

All Lonely Sad Angry Funny Spiritual 813 quotes · page 23 of 50

Poet, Novelist

Determined

“I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is.”

Thinking Important Winning

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Happy

“the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.”

Joy Rocks Symphony

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Melancholic

“I am this fiery snail crawling home.”

Home Snail

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Melancholic

“the tired sunsets and the tired people - it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all.”

People Tired

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Lonely

“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”

Play School Benches

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Wise

“I've learned to feel good when I feel good. it's better to be driven around in a red porsche than to own one. the luck of the fool is inviolate.”

Luck Feel Good Red

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Sad

“I can almost understand why people leap from bridges.”

People Bridges

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Hopeful

“Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.”

Waiting

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Lonely

“places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?”

Pet Goldfish Canaries

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Philosophical

“Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.”

Way Artist Simple

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Courageous

“Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.”

Men Revolution Papa

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Creative

“you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the demonic ladies, you've got to run along the edge of madness teetering, you've got to starve like a winter alleycat, you've go to live with the imbecility of at least a dozen cities, then maybe maybe maybe you might know where you are for a tiny blinking moment.”

Running Cities Winter

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