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“Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”
― Charles Bukowski

“In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.”
― Charles Bukowski

“There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping
after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with
fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too
conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with
the family, runs through school and goes into the business
world.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“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

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don’t give a damn.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“The crazy ones only laugh when there is no reason to laugh.”
― Charles Bukowski

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”
― Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“purple does something strange to me”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it”
― charles bukowski

“nobody ever finds
the one”
― Charles Bukowski

“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”
― Charles Bukowski

“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
― Charles Bukowski, Hollywood

“Don't try.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Hey baby, when I write, I'm the hero of my shit.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Music is much like fucking, but some composers can't climax and others climax too often, leaving themselves and the listener jaded and spent.”
― Charles Bukowski

“there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.”
― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.”
― Charles Bukowski, Post Office

“Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“Fiction is an improvement on life”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye