Quotes from Charles Bukowski

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.

The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.

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You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad.

That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.

I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.

That is what friendship means. Sharing the prejudice of experience.

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.