she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty Charles Bukowski More Quotes by Charles Bukowski More Quotes From Charles Bukowski We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create. Charles Bukowski strong people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin. Charles Bukowski cousin mean thinking I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse. Charles Bukowski sexy party witty A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. Charles Bukowski serious-illness illness serious I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there. Charles Bukowski crazy strong real there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day Charles Bukowski army hatred average Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence. Charles Bukowski jealous different games I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: "Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready. Charles Bukowski hello pockets baby LSD, yeah, the big parade – everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me. Charles Bukowski sick gun intellectual Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks. Charles Bukowski tasks sometimes sex Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself. Charles Bukowski obvious drunk enough There is no hurry. Time means nothing to you. Charles Bukowski mean I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. Charles Bukowski space ideas interesting There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity. Charles Bukowski writing insanity way one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid Charles Bukowski good-poetry acid They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch. Charles Bukowski contentment jail hands And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built Charles Bukowski tired night moving I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread. Charles Bukowski bread Love is a form of prejudice. I have too many other prejudices. Charles Bukowski prejudice form love-is Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. Charles Bukowski emotional drinking beer
