
Quotes of Charles Bukowski (Part-2)
“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.”
“Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.”
“I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.”
“In my work, as a writer, I only photograph, in words, what I see.”
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery–isolation. Isolation is the gift. All the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you’ll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is.”
“It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.”
“It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.”
“Hey baby, when I write, I’m the hero of my shit.”
“Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.”
“Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.”
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
“An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.”
“There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.”
“If you get married they think you’re finished and if you are without a woman they think you’re incomplete.”
“Of course it’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.”
“What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman.”
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
“Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing.”
“Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire…. Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It’s real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you’ve suddenly become an idiot. There’s no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help.”
