Thinking Quotes by Charles Bukowski

It seemed better to delay thinking.

— Charles Bukowski

mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?

— Charles Bukowski

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

— Charles Bukowski

How are his poems?" "He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.

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I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an…

— Charles Bukowski

I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.

— Charles Bukowski

but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together.

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if you think they didn't go crazy in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then…

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I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.

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I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are.

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I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel…

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The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion.…

— Charles Bukowski

Dog is much admired by Man because he believes in the hand which feeds him. A perfect set-up. For 13 cents a…

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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I…

— Charles Bukowski

people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an…

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I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on…

— Charles Bukowski

I was only kidding about the hundred," she says. oh," I say, "what will it cost me?" she lights her cigarette with…

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I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why…

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There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible…

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There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway…

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I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like…

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I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards,…

— Charles Bukowski

To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed.…

— Charles Bukowski

I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession…

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This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they…

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That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my…

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There may not be a hell, but those who judge may create one. I think people are over-taught. They are over-taught everything.…

— Charles Bukowski

Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost…

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young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.

— Charles Bukowski

human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.

— Charles Bukowski

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus…

— Charles Bukowski

I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and…

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if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

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They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.

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Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

— Charles Bukowski

Sometimes a man doesn’t know what to do about things and sometimes it’s best to lie very still and try not to…

— Charles Bukowski

Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.

— Charles Bukowski

I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each…

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for a man of 55 who didn't get laid until he was 23 and not very often until he was 50 I…

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Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work. Think of how many times you put on your underwear in a…

— Charles Bukowski