Charles Bukowski Quotes.
The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.
I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don’t like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don’t like to be shaped by society.
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.
Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.
When I say that basically writing is a hard hustle, I don’t mean that it is a bad life, if one can get away with it. It’s the miracle of miracles to make a living by the typer.
It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
We’re all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.
Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.
It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.
