"We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












What is your advice to young writers?” “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.

More Charles Bukowski quotes
"You women have more holes than swiss cheese.
"The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
"Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.
"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.
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"If you have the ability to love, love yourself first.
"I do think that poetry is important though, if you don’t strive at it, if you don’t fill it full of stars and falseness.
"It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any.
"when Whitman wrote, “I sing the body electric”I know what hemeantI know what hewanted:to be completely alive every momentin spite of the inevitable.we...
"Yes Yeswhen God created love he didn't help most when God created dogs He didn't help dogs when God created plants that was average when God created h...
"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...
"take a writer away from his typewriterand all you have leftisthe sicknesswhich started himtypingin thebeginning
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.