Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

All Lonely Sad Angry Funny Spiritual 813 quotes · page 27 of 50

Poet, Novelist

Courageous

“The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.”

Thinking Men Jumping

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Spiritual

“I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.”

Party Witty Sexy

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Melancholic

“Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die.”

Wrinkles Pretty Woman

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Spiritual

“If you want to know where God is, ask a drunk.”

Want Knows

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Spiritual

“Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.”

Animal Worry Owning A Pet

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Sad

“Without literature, life is hell.”

Literature Life Is

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Lonely

“I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.”

Feelings Needed

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Spiritual

“nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself”

Force Quitting Impossible Situations

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Philosophical

“I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.”

Mad Poverty Rich Poor

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Angry

“It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”

Style Dangerous

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Wise

“I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.”

Reality

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Courageous

“Those who escape hell however never talk about it and nothing much bothers them after that”

Hell Bother

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