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
Charles Bukowski quotes about
men never-trust never-trust-a-man
Never trust a man in a jumpsuit
men drug cases
…He was always high on drugs. I was not a drug man, but in case I wanted to hide from myself for a few days, I knew I could get anything I wanted from him.
beer men forgotten
I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight
jobs men best-job
The worst men have the best jobs the best men have the worst jobs or are unemployed or locked in madhouses.
art love-is men
beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world
rain men hands
I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
change romantic men
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
men drunk shooting-up
We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar.
men tonight alive
some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.
men bridges good-man
Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
men thinking differences
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
jobs writing men
There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
men discouraged needed
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
loneliness pride men
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me.