Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Creative

“all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble.”

Believe Running Horse

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Love

“I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard words I ever feared to say can now be said: I love you.”

Night Sleep Love You

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Melancholic

“pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more.”

Pain Absurd

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Happy

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”

Morning Alive

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Creative

“The secret is writing down one simple line after another.”

Writing Simple Secret

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Spiritual

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”

Knows Listening

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Heartbroken

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

Serious Illness

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Anxious

“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”

Night Drinking Hangover

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Lonely

“I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.”

Mother Sleep 4th Of July

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Creative

“If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.”

Spite Bursting

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Creative

“purple does something strange to me”

Doe Strange

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Courageous

“The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted.”

Men Medicine Marijuana

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