Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
phones stupidity may
If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell.
jesus style arcs
Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
stupid hard-work mad
Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.
loser winner
In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.
hair water faces
I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.
defeat
There's music in everything, even defeat
writing sometimes easy
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
als
they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is
mean sleep talking
Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.
eye sick hatred
I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.
couple years lovely
The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple.
fall fall-back
You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.
littles lasts bad-jokes
Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes.
perspective people dangerous
People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective.