Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Charles Bukowski quotes, Charles Bukowski sayings, and Charles Bukowski proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Having nothing to struggle against they have nothing to struggle for.Charles Bukowski
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day.Charles Bukowski
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In New York you've got to have all the luck.Charles Bukowski
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Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now.Charles Bukowski
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We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting.Charles Bukowski
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What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.Charles Bukowski
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Animals never worry about heaven or hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.Charles Bukowski
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Some moments are nice, some are nicer, some are even worth writing about.Charles Bukowski
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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.Charles Bukowski
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and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense, and are not easy to fool with laughterCharles Bukowski
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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to themCharles Bukowski
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If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.Charles Bukowski
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The difference between Art and Life is that Art is more bearable.Charles Bukowski
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It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m.Charles Bukowski
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.Charles Bukowski
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Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.Charles Bukowski
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.Charles Bukowski
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I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.Charles Bukowski
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What a weary time those years were, to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.Charles Bukowski
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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.Charles Bukowski
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Fiction is an improvement on life.Charles Bukowski
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The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, some place good.Charles Bukowski
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Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work.Charles Bukowski
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News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.Charles Bukowski
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.Charles Bukowski
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There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.Charles Bukowski
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There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clockCharles Bukowski
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Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.Charles Bukowski
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Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville.Charles Bukowski
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Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.Charles Bukowski