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
courage cat feelings
when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns
jobs sleep men
I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
serious-illness serious illness
A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
real loneliness
Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
pain real cat
Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.
cousin mean thinking
people see so many movies that when they finally see one not so bad as the others, they think it's great. an Academy Award means that you don't stink quite as much as your cousin.
block writing writers-block
writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all
drinking beer blood
stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.
two numbers way
Look, let me put it this way: with me, you’re number one and there isn’t even a number two.
sleep night people
I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
pay humans human-beings
It didn't pay to trust another human being. Humans didn't have it, whatever it took.
men tonight alive
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
war army noble
There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best generals and the better army!
sex tasks sometimes
Sex can sometimes become the most horrible of tasks.