January 2011
195 posts
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“I take much pleasure in being alone
but there is also a strange warm grace in...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“no leaders, please
invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don’t swim in...”
– bukowski
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“you may not believe it
but there are people
who go through life with
very...”
– Charles Bukowski - The Aliens
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“no matter what woman I’m with
people ask me,
are you still with her?”
– from poem: “Yes, I am”
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“God is a lonely place without steak.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“A man will never make it through the machinery of the State. A man must make it...”
– Charles Bukowski
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these things that we support most well have nothing to do with us, and we do with them out of of boredom or fear or money or cracked intelligence;
Days run away like wild horses - Charles Bukowski
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“Fuck you.”
“What?”
“Fuck you.”
“Well, that’s something you haven’t done in a while.”
South of No North - Charles Bukowski
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“a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend, but...”
– Charles Bukowski
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About his typewriter
the various women I have lived with have loved rock concerts, reggae festivals, love-ins, peace marches, movies, garage sales, fairs, political rallies, weddings, funerals, poetry readings, Spanish classes, spas, parties, bars and so forth. while I have lived with this machine.
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“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet...”
– Charles Bukowski
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play the piano drunk like a percussion instrument...
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“life is and is not a gentle bore.”
– Charles Bukowski
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pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep.
Charles Bukowski
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“The dead are easy to find—they are all about us; the difficulty is in finding...”
– Charles Bukowski
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nobody can save you but yourself.
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“the ability to suffer and endure,
that’s nobility, friend.
the ability...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“the strongest men are the fewest
and the strongest women die alone
too.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Your life is your life, don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission. Be on the...”
– The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski
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“what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without...”
– charles bukowski
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“One of my successes in life was that in spite of all the crazy things I had...”
– Hollywood - Charles Bukowski
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“your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“… it seems that the most beautiful women always go for the most horrible...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn’t mad was angry. And the part...”
– Bukowski (Pulp)
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there is never going to be
any peace
for any individual
upon this earth (or
anywhere else
they might
escape to).
all you can do is maybe grab ten lucky minutes
here
or maybe an hour
there..
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“Good women frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Writers are desperate people when they stop being desperate they stop being...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Almost everyone is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
– Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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Bluebird - one of the most popular poem
there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I’m not going to let anybody see you. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there. there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too...
delfinaarthouse asked: Thank you :)
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Poor blacks hated. Poor whites hated. It was only when blacks got money and whites got money that they mixed. Some whites loved blacks. Very few, if any, blacks loved whites. They were still getting even. Maybe they never would. In a capitalistic society the losers slavedfor the winners and you have to have more losers than winners. What did I think? I knew politics would never solve it and there...
iam-spartacus asked: Hi! I wanted to let you know that in your last quote post, it says "Factorum" instead of "Factotum". Maybe I'm mistaken and he wrote something called Factorum? I'm not sure, I just wanted to let you know.
“Baby,” I said. “I’m a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
– Henry Chinaski
Factotum
(via jackworthy)
“Learn, he says, that there will be hours, days
and months ahead of feeling...”
– Charles Bukowski
…I don’t want to save the World, I don’t even want to save me. We’re so boring that we don’t event want to save ourselves…There’s nothing left to say, we’re so fucking boring. Let it die I say. Let there be a new beginning…It’s awful. Goodnight”
~Charles Bukowski~