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There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.

There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
– Charles Bukowski

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  1. The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. – Charles Bukowski
  2. I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs books to make it through the – Gail Carriger
  3. I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
  4. Doing nothing accomplishes nothing, gains nothing, changes nothing, and wins nothing. You have to make a move. – Richelle E Goodrich
  5. a life can change in a tenth ofa second.or sometimes it can take70years. – Charles Bukowski
  6. sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn’t have time to live it. – Charles Bukowski
  7. Life wore a man out, wore a man thin.Tomorrow would be a better day. – Charles Bukowski
  8. Without literature, life is hell. – Charles Bukowski
  9. A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing – Eugne Ionesco
  10. the tired sunsets and the tired people – it takes a lifetime to die and no time at all. – Charles Bukowski
  11. I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me. – Charles Bukowski
  12. I have one problem, I don’t hate people. They disgust me and I want to get away from them. I do not have hatred. I have an escape mechanism. – Charles Bukowski
  13. I began to feel like a kept man and it felt great. – Charles Bukowski
  14. there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy – Charles Bukowski
  15. if you have to wait for it to roar out ofyou,then wait patiently.if it never does roar out of you,do something else. – Charles Bukowski
  16. When someone else’s truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that’s great. – Charles Bukowski
  17. The total ugliness and indifference of the worst features of the human race come out in their driving habits. – Charles Bukowski
  18. my gardenin the sun and in the rainand in the day and in the nightpain is a flowerpain is flowersblooming all the time. – Charles Bukowski
  19. Existence was not only absurd, it was plain hard work – Charles Bukowski
  20. Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can’t even cry. – Charles Bukowski
  21. I could never acceptlife as it was,I could never gobbledown all itspoisonsbu there were parts,tenuous magic partsopen for theasking. – Charles Bukowski
  22. She had wild eyes, slightly insane. She also carried an overload of compassion that was real enough and which obviously cost her something. – Charles Bukowski
  23. there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock – Charles Bukowski
  24. I canalmost understandwhypeopleleapfrombridges. – Charles Bukowski
  25. She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed you to suffer for it. – Charles Bukowski
  26. If you have the ability to love, love yourself first. – Charles Bukowski
  27. I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely. – Charles Bukowski
  28. the grace is being able to like rock music,symphony music, jazz -¦anything that contains the original energy ofjoy. – Charles Bukowski
  29. and love is a word usedtoo much andmuchtoo soon. – Charles Bukowski
  30. I found the best thingI could dowas just to type awayat my own workand let the dyingdieas they always have. – Charles Bukowski
  31. one doesn’t even think ofthe liverand if the liverdoesn’t think ofus, that’sfine. – Charles Bukowski
  32. There is a blue bird in my heart that wants to get out. – Charles Bukowski
  33. I went to the kitchen and felt-up the turkey. – Charles Bukowski
  34. People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way. – Charles Bukowski
  35. There’s no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they’re printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking. – Charles Bukowski
  36. what you werewill not happen again.the tigers have found meand I do not care. – Charles Bukowski
  37. Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces. – Charles Bukowski
  38. Ithink that theworld should be full of cats and full of rain, that’s all, justcats andrain, rain and cats, very nice, goodnight. – Charles Bukowski
  39. and beware those whoonly takeinstructions from theirGodfor they havefailed completely to live their ownlives. – Charles Bukowski
  40. Isolation is a gift. Everything else is just a test of your endurance. You will be alone with the Gods. Your nights will flame with fire. – Charles Bukowski

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