77 Quotes About Charles-bukowski

Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.

My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.

Christmas poem to a man in jailhello Bill Abbott:I appreciate your passing around my books injail there, my poems and stories.if I can lighten the load for some of those guys withmy books, fine.but literature, you know, is difficult for theaverage man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too);I don't like most poetry, for example,so I write mine the way I like to read it.

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.

I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...

There's nothing unusual about love.

a pro does as well as he can within whathe has set out to doand a madmandoes exceptionally well at whathe can't helpdoing.

I’ve seen too many intellectuals lately. I get very tired of the precious intellects who must speak diamonds every time they open their mouths. I get tired of battling for each space of air for the mind. That’s why I stayed away from people for so long, and now that I am meeting people, I find that I must return to my cave.

Nëse një ditë më dëgjoni të flasë për dashuri, e yje... ju lutem, më vrisni!