Quotes from Charles Bukowski

My contest is only with myself: to do it right, with power and force and delight and gamble. Otherwise, forget it.

Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious. Then

Will you read some of your poems?" "Christ, no." "Why not?" "I just want to drink." "You talk about drinking a lot in your books. Do you think drinking has helped your writing?" "No. I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon." I

?itate Celinea? upotao je ženski glas. Zvu?io je seksi. U zadnje sam vrijeme bio nešto sam. I tako desetlje?ima.

When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity. ? Charles Bukowski, Women (: Ecco; Reprint edition, February 27, 2007) Originally published 1978.

Food is good for the nerves and the spirit.

It was the Canadian belly dancer," I told Sara. "How's she doing?" "She's just full of Christmas cheer.

Dripping faucets, farts of passion, flat tires - are all sadder than death.

Taip jau yra su g?rimu, pagalvojau prisipildamas stikl?. Kai atsitinka kas nors blogo, geri, kad užsimirštum, kai atsitinka kas nors gero, geri, kad atšv?stum, o jei nieko neatsitinka - geri, kad kas nors atsitikt?.

Oh, I didn't know that. I thought you bitches were always screaming for equal rights?

perhaps it will help if we all realize that perhaps all of us have been pests at one time or another to somebody but we never knew it. shit, it's a horrible thought but most probably true and maybe it will help us bear up under the pest. basically, there is no 100 percent man. we are all run through with various madnesses and ugliness that we ourselves are not aware of but that everyone else is aware of.

A volte mi sento come fossimo tutti prigionieri di un film. Sappiamo le battute, sappiamo dove metterci, come recitare, manca solo la macchina da presa. Però non possiamo uscire dal film. Ed è un brutto film.

olen aina sanonut: jos haluat selvittää ketkä ovat ystäviäsi niin mene hullujenhuoneelle tai vankilaan ja jos haluat tietää millaista on elää ilman rakkautta niin ole ikuinen häviäjä

He didn't talk much but I didn't talk much either and we got along.

People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me.

televizyonda Bogart Haftas? var, diyorum kad?n?ma. düÅŸünsene, bir hafta boyunca her gece bir Bogart filmi! bugün çöp toplama günü, diyor, çöpü d??ar? ç?kard?n m?? avuçlar?m? bitiÅŸtirip bir sigara yak?yorum, duman? içime çekiyorum, ona gözlerimi k?sarak bak?p duman? aÄŸz?mdan ve burnumdan yavaÅŸça üflüyorum: sen ç?kar.

The parrot sat on the back of a chair across from me. Suddenly he climbed down and walked across the table between the ashtrays and empty bottles and climbed up on my shoulder. "Don't say that thing," I told him, "it's very irritating to me when you say that thing." "Fuckin' whore," said the parrot.

You can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.

It was a month or so later that Red's family moved. One day they were gone. Just like that.

when we were kids there was a strange house all the shades were always drawn and we never heard voices in there and the yard was full of bamboo and we liked to play in the bamboo pretend we were Tarzan (although

I felt too miserable to be unhappy.

Se eu nunca ver você de novo Eu sempre vou levar você dentro fora na ponta dos meus dedos e nas bordas do meu cérebro e em centros centros do que eu sou do que restou.

Que sonho bom: nunca mais olhar na cara de outro ser humano.

I don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.