All Charles Bukowski Quotes
- That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. Experience
- in this room the hours of love still make shadows. Hours
- There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a… Alone
- Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth… Encountered
- First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. Downtown
- News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens. Ever Happens
- When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere. Dime
- You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there… Beat
- When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen. Down
- Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born. Any
- It's just that the grape has me down. Down
- They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. Actuality
- Fiction is an improvement on life Fiction
- He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge. Asked
- It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life. Exist
- I was only photographing in words the reality of it all. All
- I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was… Arm
- I want to let her know though that all the nights sleeping beside her even the useless arguments were things ever splendid and the hard… All
- all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble. All
- and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and… Alone
- nobody ever finds the one Ever Finds
- but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry. Crossing
- You are thirty minutes late." "Yes." "Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?" "No." "Why not, pray tell?" "Well, if… Funeral
- Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try".… Asked
- It began as a mistake. Began