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The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd.

Charles Bukowski
Numbers, Turds, Worst
Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

The wisdom to quit is all we have left.

Charles Bukowski
Quitting, Left

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

Charles Bukowski
Confused, Eye, Hair
Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

People were usually much better in their letters than in reality. They were much like poets in this way.

Charles Bukowski
Reality, People, Letters

When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.

Charles Bukowski
Games, Might, Toys
Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). “Absence of the Hero”, p.65, City Lights Books

It's just that the grape has me down.

Charles Bukowski
Grapes
Charles Bukowski, David Calonne (2013). “Absence of the Hero”, p.32, City Lights Books

When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble.

Charles Bukowski
Worry, Doubt, Delight
"Fictional character: Henry Chinaski". "Factotum", www.imdb.com. 2005.

I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty stories

Charles Bukowski
Dirty, Kitchen, Looks

It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.

Charles Bukowski
Mad, Stills, Scrap

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

Charles Bukowski
People, Waiting, Complaining

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse

Charles Bukowski
Eight, Ninety, Hundred

I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.

Charles Bukowski
Book, Great Book, Interest

there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone.

Charles Bukowski
Cities, Feelings, Guilty
Charles Bukowski, “Young In New Orleans”

Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience.

Charles Bukowski
Moral, Human Experience, Grounded
Charles Bukowski (2007). “Women”, Ecco

I went over to see Marina two or three or four times a week. I knew as long as I could see the girl I would be all right…. Soon after, I got a letter from Fay. She and the child were living in a hippie commune in New Mexico. It was a nice place, she said. Marina would be able to breathe there. She enclosed a little drawing the girl had made for me.

Charles Bukowski
Girl, Children, Nice

Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness.

Charles Bukowski
Ejaculation, Ordinary, Exhibitions
1972 Title of book.

the masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.

Charles Bukowski
Mass, Sane, Know How

The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep.

Charles Bukowski
Pests, Baths, Bores
Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.175, City Lights Books

there's no defense except all the errors made

Charles Bukowski
Errors, Defense, Made

this time has finished me.

Charles Bukowski
Finished
Charles Bukowski, “The Retreat”

Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.

Charles Bukowski
Animal, Talking, Soul
Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

they thought I had guts they were wrong I was only frightened of more important things

Charles Bukowski
Deep Thought, Self Control, Important

but right now it's Bob Dylan Bob Dylan Bob Dylan all the way.

Charles Bukowski
Bob, Way, Dylan

I'll use the knives for spreading jam, and the gas to warm my greying love.

Charles Bukowski
Knives, Jam, Use

the sea is made of blood

Charles Bukowski
Blood, Sea, Made

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