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01Undated

I don't know. It's been terribly hard for me. How do I know you won't do it again?''Nobody is ever quite sure of what they will do. You aren't sure what you might do.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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02Undated

When women agree with me I always do the other thing

Charles Bukowski / quote

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03Undated

I guess lesbianism wasn't so rampant in those days, they would've gotten a bunk with each other and just left me alone, you know. Which would have been just as well, you know..

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04Undated

Nothing like beautiful legs. 'Cause with beautiful legs, even if you've been there only once or twice, there might be something up there besides the cunt, there might be something really marvellous this time - it could be a cunt, but it could be - it's just something about looking at the legs just makes you - I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the cunt, I'm just saying, you always imagine - some extra magic when you're looking at the outside portion of the female.

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05Undated

I'm not a guru. I wish you wouldn't pose these things at me, man. Ask me about women or something.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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06Undated

You women have more holes than swiss cheese.

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07Undated

good weatheris likegood women—it doesn’t always happenand when it doesit doesn’talways last.

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08Undated

Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.

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09Undated

All we do is sleep, and eat and lay around and make love. We're like slugs. Slug-love, I call it.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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10Undated

that's what kills a man: lack of change.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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11Undated

the way to create art is to burn and destroyordinary concepts and to substitute themwith new truths that run down from the top of the headand out of the heart

Charles Bukowski / quote

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12Undated

if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else.

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13Undated

unless it comes out ofyour soul like a rocket,unless being still woulddrive you to madness orsuicide or murder,don’t do it.unless the sun inside you isburning your gut,don’t do it.when it is truly time,and if you have been chosen,it will do it byitself and it will keep on doing ituntil you die or it dies in you.there is no other way.and there never was.

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14Undated

It was a joy! Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.

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15Undated

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

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16Undated

I sat back down and poured a glass of wine. I left my door open. The moonlight came in with the sounds of the city: juke boxes, automobiles, curses, dogs barking, radios . . . We were all in it together. We were all in one big shit pot together. There was no escape. We were all going to be flushed away.

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17Undated

The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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18Undated

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.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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19Undated

the first place smelled like work, so I took the second

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20Undated

To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.

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21Undated

you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand?

Charles Bukowski / quote

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22Undated

my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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23Undated

that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty.

Charles Bukowski / quote

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24Undated

Ya got cigarettes?” she asks. “Yes,” I say,“I got cigarettes.” “Matches?” she asks.“Enough to burn Rome.” “Whiskey?”“Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River of pain.” “You drunk?” “Not yet.

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