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Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.

Charles Bukowski
Sometimes
"Nazi Claim May Thwart Bukowski Landmark" by Jacob Adelman, www.foxnews.com. November 28, 2007.

I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me.

Charles Bukowski
Kissing, Lips, Remember
Charles Bukowski, “Raw With Love”

you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old.

Charles Bukowski
Women, Boys, High Heels
Charles Bukowski (2009). “Love is a Dog From Hell”, p.26, Harper Collins

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Charles Bukowski
Sometimes, Loneliness And Solitude, Felt

Life's as kind as you let it be.

Charles Bukowski
Life, Truth, Kind

I don't know about other people, but when I wake up in the morning and put my shoes on, I think, Jesus Christ, now what?

Charles Bukowski
Jesus, Morning, Thinking

Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.

Charles Bukowski
Beautiful, Being Alone, Fighting
Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.43, Harper Collins

Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.

Charles Bukowski
Sometimes, Hell, Goodness

I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.

Charles Bukowski
Sadness, Thinking, Sick
Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.11, City Lights Books

I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.

Charles Bukowski
Inspirational, Funny, Book

I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.

Charles Bukowski
Morning, Color, Awakening

I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

Charles Bukowski
Beer, Men, Forgotten

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

Charles Bukowski
Distance, Two, Unbearable

Human relationships are strange. I mean, you are with one person a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops.

Charles Bukowski
Mean, Sleep, Talking

I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.

Charles Bukowski
Old Friends, Used
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.302, Canongate Books

and when love came to us twice and lied to us twice we decided to never love again that was fair fair to us and fair to love itself. we ask for no mercy or no miracles; we are strong enough to live and to die and to kill flies, attend the boxing matches, go to the racetrack, live on luck and skill, get alone, get alone often, and if you can't sleep alone be careful of the words you speak in your sleep; and ask for no mercy no miracles; and don't forget: time is meant to be wasted, love fails and death is useless.

Charles Bukowski
Strong, Sleep, Skills

I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.

Charles Bukowski
Jobs, Work, Drinking
"Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 31, 1975.

You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.

Charles Bukowski
Play, Whiskey, Stealing
Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.38, City Lights Books

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Charles Bukowski
Mean, Giving, Awareness

Most of the world was mad. And the part that wasn't mad was angry. And the part that wasn't mad or angry was just stupid. I had no chance. I had no choice. Just hang on and wait for the end. It was hard work. It was the hardest work imaginable.

Charles Bukowski
Stupid, Hard Work, Mad

Great art is horseshit, buy tacos.

Charles Bukowski
Art, Tacos, Great Art

I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

Charles Bukowski
Suicide, Jesus, Sleep
"Ham On Rye". Book by Charles Bukowski, 1982.

People need me. I fill them. If they can't see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It's hard to feed without getting fed.

Charles Bukowski
People, Sick, Needs

Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.

Charles Bukowski
War, Dying, Happenings

I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.

Charles Bukowski
Drinking, Littles, Chance

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