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Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Charles Bukowski
True Love, Reality, Love Is
"Drifters / Love Is the Devil" by Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. May 23, 2013.

and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?

Charles Bukowski
Cheater, Laughing, Interesting
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.191, Canongate Books

the tigers have found me and I do not care.

Charles Bukowski
Care, Found, Tigers
Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.26, Canongate Books

The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

Charles Bukowski
Lonely, Museums, Empty

I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.

Charles Bukowski
Feelings, Needed

There still might be a place for us somewhere.

Charles Bukowski
Might, Stills

You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it.

Charles Bukowski
Light, Levi's, Sometimes
Charles Bukowski, “The Laughing Heart”

nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself

Charles Bukowski
Impossible Situations, Quitting, Force
Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.393, Zondervan

A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do.

Charles Bukowski
Horse, Men, Mind
Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.65, City Lights Books

Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?

Charles Bukowski
Destroying, Destroying Yourself
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.73, Canongate Books

If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.

Charles Bukowski
Suicide, Long Ago, Committed

our bones like stems into the sky will forever cry victory

Charles Bukowski
Sky, Forever, Victory

There's no light at the end of the tunnel, there isn't even a tunnel. The best thing I can do is get drunk and listen to classical music. Or sleep and wait for death to get closer. Leaving this will not be a horrible thing. Yet I'm glad, somehow, that I threw my words in the air: confetti, celebrating nothing.

Charles Bukowski
Sleep, Air, Tunnels

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

Charles Bukowski
Dirty, Men, Looks

I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.

Charles Bukowski
Long Ago, World, Alleys
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.103, Canongate Books

there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy

Charles Bukowski
Women, Ready, One Woman

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Charles Bukowski
Love, Romantic, Writing
Charles Bukowski, “An Almost Made Up Poem”

"Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me."

Charles Bukowski
Baby, Genius, Said
"Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.

It’s when you hide things that you choke on them.

Charles Bukowski
Choke
Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

and love is a word used too much and much too soon.

Charles Bukowski
Love, Too Much, Used

More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote.

Charles Bukowski
Law, Vote, Advantage
Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

Charles Bukowski
Writing, People, Desperate

The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how they did it.

Charles Bukowski
Monday, Nice, People

Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask.

Charles Bukowski
Men, Papa, Revolution
Charles Bukowski (2013). “Notes of a Dirty Old Man”, p.46, City Lights Books

Style means no shield at all. Style means no front at all. Style means ultimate naturalness. Style means one man alone with billions of men about.

Charles Bukowski
Mean, Men, Style
Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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