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Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.

Charles Bukowski
Two, Aliens, Hours

They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself.

Charles Bukowski
Form, Actuality, Fronts
Charles Bukowski (2010). “Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992”, City Lights Publishers

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski
Retirement, Work, Bed
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.260, Canongate Books

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

Charles Bukowski
Thinking, Ideas, People
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.67, Canongate Books

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting, Shadow, Hell

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!

Charles Bukowski
Circus, Triviality, Dies
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.10, Harper Collins

And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life.

Charles Bukowski
Firsts, Said
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Hollywood”, p.35, Canongate Books

Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.

Charles Bukowski
Lying, Long Ago, Silence
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.440, Canongate Books

There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.

Charles Bukowski
Heart, Want, Chaos
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Charles Bukowski
Should Have, Machinery, Treated

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Charles Bukowski
Men, Discouraged, Needed

We are here to laugh at the odds.

Charles Bukowski
Odds, Laughing
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture". Life Magazine, December 1988.

I feel strangely normal.

Charles Bukowski
Normal, Feels
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Captain is Out to Lunch”, p.12, Harper Collins

I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Drinking, Writing
"Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't.

Charles Bukowski
Guy, Chance, Needed
Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.61, Canongate Books

I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.

Charles Bukowski
Sleep, Night, People

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Charles Bukowski
Men, Tonight, Alive
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books

What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.

Charles Bukowski
Jail, Needs, Drink

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Art, Thought Provoking

great books are the ones we need

Charles Bukowski
Book, Needs, Great Book
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Last Night of the Earth Poems”, p.43, Harper Collins

morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.

Charles Bukowski
Morning, Pain, Moving

Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love.

Charles Bukowski
Children, Taken, Laughing
Charles Bukowski (2009). “The Days Run Away Like Wild Horses”, p.20, Harper Collins

It began as a mistake.

Charles Bukowski
Mistake
Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.7, Canongate Books

The trouble with a mask is it never changes

Charles Bukowski
Trouble, Mask, Never Change
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.3, Canongate Books

a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )

Charles Bukowski
Book, Luck, Impossible

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