Sometimes I've called writing a disease. If so, I'm glad that it caught me. Charles Bukowski More Quotes by Charles Bukowski More Quotes From Charles Bukowski Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell. Charles Bukowski hellgoodnesssometimes Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. Charles Bukowski uglyluckypeople Sometimes I feel as if we are all trapped in a movie. We know our lines, where to walk, how to act, only there is no camera. Yet, we can't break out of the movie. And it's a bad one. Charles Bukowski cameraslinesbreak-out Pretty words, as pretty women, wrinkle up and die. Charles Bukowski pretty-wordspretty-womanwrinkles Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is. Charles Bukowski being-alonefightingbeautiful Some lose all mind and become soul,insane. some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. some lose both and become accepted Charles Bukowski intellectualsoulmind I was laying in bed one night and I thought 'I'll just quit - to hell with it.' And another little voice inside me said 'Don't quit - save that tiny little ember of spark.' And never give them that spark because as long as you have that spark, you can start the greatest fire again. Charles Bukowski voicefirenight Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around. Charles Bukowski feel-betterhatepeople Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was. Charles Bukowski suicidetimemotivational Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait. Charles Bukowski waiting The masses are always wrong...Wisdom is doing everything the crowd does not do. All you do is reverse the totality of their learning and you have the heaven they're looking for. Charles Bukowski crowdsdoeheaven Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust. Charles Bukowski winefearmoving Style is the answer to everything. A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing. To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it. To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art. Charles Bukowski stylefashionart Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way. Charles Bukowski funny-lifeupliftingmorning you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old. Charles Bukowski womenhigh-heelsboys I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. Charles Bukowski eyemenschool You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there’s nothing out there. It’s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Charles Bukowski fridaylonelysorry For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. Charles Bukowski educationalatheistwar I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them. Charles Bukowski injusticepeoplethinking Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out of your body and your mind and throws you against the wall. I have the feeling that drinking is a form of suicide where you're allowed to return to life and begin all over the next day. It's like killing yourself, and then you're reborn. I guess I've lived about ten or fifteen thousand lives now. Charles Bukowski wallsuicidedrinking
