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Charles Bukowski

Read through the most famous quotes from Charles Bukowski




Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.


— Charles Bukowski


#immortality #life-and-death #sex #life

Find what you love and let it kill you.


— Charles Bukowski


#love

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.


— Charles Bukowski


#sex-appeal #women #love

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


#love

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy


— Charles Bukowski


#love

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.


— Charles Bukowski


#dreams

my beerdrunk soul is sadder than all the dead christmas trees of the world.


— Charles Bukowski


#dead

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting


— Charles Bukowski


#rose

Life's as kind as you let it be.


— Charles Bukowski


#truth #life

What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.


— Charles Bukowski


#poverty #youth #need






About Charles Bukowski

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Did you know about Charles Bukowski?

This play was a one-off performance. I've always had the geographical and spiritual feeling of being here. He was then 49 years old.

In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". His writing was influenced by the social cultural and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero.

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