“we have everything and we have nothing. some do it well enough for a while and then give way. fame gets them… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
dont undress my love you might find a mannequin dont undress the mannequin you might find love. shes long ago forgotten me.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“You lose what individualism you have, if you have enough of course, you retain some of it, but most don't have enough,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“the gift is having a daughter more gentle than you are, whose laughter is finer than yours.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Thanksgiving. It proved you had survived another year with its wars, inflation, unemployment, smog, presidents. It was a grand neurotic gathering of… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, i don't know about you but I'm going to try everything! War, women, travel, marriage, children, the works. [...]. I want… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“god, love is more strange than numerals more strange than grass on fire more strange than the dead body of a child… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“And my own affairs were as bad, as dismal, as the day I had been born. The only difference was that now… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The kids sit about sipping at their coffees and waiting for it to happen. It isn’t going to happen.” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Alone Again" I think of each of them living somewhere else sitting somewhere else standing somewhere else sleeping somewhere else or maybe… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred” — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
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