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
men luck trying
I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck.
hate sometimes said
sometimes I hate you," she said.
mad rich-poor poverty
I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.
pay humans human-beings
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
fads too-much lasts
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
long people enough
Careful poetry and careful people live only long enough to die safely.
taste millionaire bad-taste
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
grief sorrow cry
Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.
guy chance needed
All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.
book needs great-book
great books are the ones we need
drinking sleep dark
It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.
laughter fighting night
If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.
light
There is light somewhere.
cousin mean thinking
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.