I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms. Charles Bukowski More Quotes by Charles Bukowski More Quotes From Charles Bukowski The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple. Charles Bukowski lovely couple years We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition. Charles Bukowski fighting fire men i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer Charles Bukowski people ideas thinking Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives. Charles Bukowski hours aliens two Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch. Charles Bukowski horse love-is people people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad. Charles Bukowski so-sad ifs people alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills. Charles Bukowski wall fate men great books are the ones we need Charles Bukowski great-book book needs It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it. Charles Bukowski dangerous style dull I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine. Charles Bukowski mines world When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. Charles Bukowski suicide writing men she’s mad, but she’s magic. Charles Bukowski mad magic There's music in everything, even defeat Charles Bukowski defeat my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw Charles Bukowski three mother two the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives. Charles Bukowski spiders silence beautiful 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 the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach. Charles Bukowski mother father school I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it. Charles Bukowski passing airplane heard The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it. Charles Bukowski nice monday people it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him. Charles Bukowski mets earth father If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. Charles Bukowski bursting-out bursting spite
