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t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

Charles Bukowski
Stress, Madness, Daily Life
Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly.

Charles Bukowski
Dog, Moving, Light
Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.21, Harper Collins

Dying should come easy: like a freight train you don't hear when your back is turned.

Charles Bukowski
Dying, Easy, Should

Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said.

Charles Bukowski
Special, Facts, Needs
Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.296, Zondervan

Where did all the women come from? The supply was endless. Each one of them was individual, different. Their pussies were different, their kisses were different, their breasts were different, but no man could drink them all, there were too many of them, crossing their legs, driving men mad. What a feast!

Charles Bukowski
Kissing, Men, Mad

The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage.

Charles Bukowski
Real, Men, Blood
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I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me.

Charles Bukowski
Drunk, Used, Alleys
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Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet.

Charles Bukowski
Running, Strong, Long
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Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23.

Charles Bukowski
Average, Poet
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I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either.

Charles Bukowski
Notebook, Thinking, Ideas
Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young.

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

I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.

Charles Bukowski
Writing, Agony, Sweat

A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good.

Charles Bukowski
Writing, Mean, Night
Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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