Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski
Henry Charles Bukowskiwas an American poet, novelist, and short story writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth16 August 1920
CityAndernach, Germany
CountryUnited States of America
drinking world moments
When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.
firsts said
And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.
sexy witty party
I didn't like parties.I didn't know how to dance and people frightened me, especially people at parties. They attempted to be sexy and gay and witty and although they hoped they were good at it, they weren 't. They were bad at it. Their trying so hard only made it worse.
fads too-much lasts
God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.
drunk enough obvious
Getting drunk was good. I decided that I would always like getting drunk. It took away the obvious and maybe if you could get away from the obvious often enough, you wouldn't become so obvious yourself.
drinking sleep dark
It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.
easter clever children
The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children.
be-kind faces like-you
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
dizzy creatures
one more creature dizzy with love
suicide long-ago committed
If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
reality california southern
I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality.
empowerment follow-through
Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge.
hurt writing hot
Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
sleep
too often, the only escape is sleep