“Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don’t have any.” ~ Charles Bukowski

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it—basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.”

~ Charles Bukowski

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“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail…”

~ Charles Bukowski

Sexiest man unalive

“I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can’t.”

~ Charles Bukowski

“You don’t understand. I’m going to be great. I have more potential than you have!”
“Potential,” I said, “doesn’t mean a thing. You’ve got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have.”

“I remember a statement by Whitman:

‘to have great poets we need great audiences.’ well, I always figure a Whitman a greater poet than I, if that matters, only this time I think he got the thing backwards. it should read:

‘to have great audiences we need great poets.’” Bukowski

“If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.”

~ Charles Bukowski

'Je suppose que le seul moment où la plupart des gens pensent à l'injustice, c'est quand cela leur arrive.'
[Hank]

'I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.' ~ Charles Bukowski

“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”

~ Charles Bukowski

“In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners. What did I think? I knew politics would never solve it and there wasn't enough time left to get lucky.”

~ Charles Bukowski

“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished.”

~ Charles Bukowski

“There’s the weekend. What to do with the weekend?”

~ Charles Bukowski

What a fuckery...

“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.” ~ Charles Bukowski