Quotes by Bukowski
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"...
it's hard to live here.
it's very hard to live here.
at night the shadows are unborn creatures.
beneath the bed
spiders kill tiny white ideas.
the nights are bad
the nights are Very bad
I drink myself to sleep
I Have to drink myself to sleep.
[...]
I have been living here too long.
[...]
I can't live here much longer."
('the rent's high too' in: 'Burning in Water ...')
it's hard to live here.
it's very hard to live here.
at night the shadows are unborn creatures.
beneath the bed
spiders kill tiny white ideas.
the nights are bad
the nights are Very bad
I drink myself to sleep
I Have to drink myself to sleep.
[...]
I have been living here too long.
[...]
I can't live here much longer."
('the rent's high too' in: 'Burning in Water ...')
HarryC13
RIP
It is indeed from "Too Sensitive," from Erections, Ejaculations, Exhibitions and ...and it's actually two quotes that start off the story:
"show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man. -- Charles Bukowski, 6-27-67, over 19th bottle of beer.
"show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities." -- Charles Bukowski, 6-27-67, over 20th bottle of beer.
Pretty funny stuff ...
Oh, and the opening line of "song of my typewriter" from The Days Run Away -- a line that would later be shortened to form his epitaph:
"the best way to think is not at all"
"There are worse things than being alone"
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The very bestest!
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. -BUK
I meant this?
An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. -BUK
I meant this?
:D:D:D:D:D
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the only good poet
One retreat after another without peace.
talking about work, the 9-to-5, he called it, It's the sickest of all sick things. (and with a slight lisp - like a sssnake. wonderful.)
mmmmm...PB&J
sex is like a peanut butter sandwich
sex is like a peanut butter sandwich
"All right, Mr. Chinaski. What word do you have for the Italian people?"
"Don't shout so much. And read Celine."
Hollywood
"No. Yes. No. No. I like Thomas Carlyle, Madame Butterfly and orange juice with the skins crushed in. I like red radios, car washes and crushed cigarette packages and Carson McCullers. No. NO! No. Yes, of course."
Shakespeare Never Did This
"Don't shout so much. And read Celine."
Hollywood
"No. Yes. No. No. I like Thomas Carlyle, Madame Butterfly and orange juice with the skins crushed in. I like red radios, car washes and crushed cigarette packages and Carson McCullers. No. NO! No. Yes, of course."
Shakespeare Never Did This
Father Luke
Founding member
to the best of my luck, this might be true
If you hated her right off, it was better to fuck her right off; if you didn't, it was better to wait, then fuck her and hate her later on
- from "women: a novel"
- from "women: a novel"
"For all I have written, I seem to remain a monk fornicating a goose in a coal mine."- Letter responding to a suggestion of a complete bibliography in Screams From The Balcony
I don't know what that means. Good thing or a bad thing?
Ahh, okay :]
Bukfan
"The law is wrong; I am right"
"I have compassion for almost all the individuals of the world; at the same time, they repulse me."
"People, mostly, I can do without. They don't fill me, they empty me. I respect no man. I have a problem that way...I'm lying but believe me, it's true."
"People, mostly, I can do without. They don't fill me, they empty me. I respect no man. I have a problem that way...I'm lying but believe me, it's true."
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