Tag: Charles Bukowski
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.
Charles Bukowski
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I only type every third night. I have no plan. My mind is a blank. I sit down. The typewriter gives me things I don’t even know I’m working on. It’s a free lunch. A free dinner. I don’t know how long it is going to continue, but so far there is nothing easier than writing.
Charles Bukowski
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I don’t write so much now. I’m getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.
Charles Bukowski
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An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many ‘bads’ – bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even ‘bad’ white males. Only, when you write about ‘bad’ white males, they don’t complain about it. And need I say that there are ‘good’ blacks, ‘good’ homosexuals and ‘good’ women?
Charles Bukowski
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Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowski
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Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles Bukowski
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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
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My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the ‘light’ and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.
Charles Bukowski
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
Charles Bukowski