Charles Bukowski Quotes

813 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Charles Bukowski Quotes

All Lonely Sad Angry Funny Spiritual 813 quotes · page 29 of 50

Poet, Novelist

Lonely

“I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores.”

Party Sleep Dirty

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Charles Bukowski

Poet, Novelist

Philosophical

“God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.”

Lasts Too Much Fads

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Creative

“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”

Art Life

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Hopeful

“That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.”

Men Needed

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Spiritual

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

Writing Way Insanity

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Happy

“To be young is the only religion.”

Young Be Young

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Angry

“People do too much. They say too much.”

People Too Much

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Motivated

“That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.”

Jobs Firsts Passion

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Grateful

“To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.”

Seems Accomplishment Worthy

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Sad

“It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.”

Sleep Dark Drinking

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Melancholic

“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.”

Men Writing Suicide

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Funny

“What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.”

Needs Drink Jail

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