Author Profile
Charles Bukowski
1920 – 1994 • American • Author
60
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Collected Meditations
Showing 60 quotesThere 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.— Charles Bukowski
To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.— Charles Bukowski
I used to live on one candy bar a day - it cost a nickel. I always remember the candy bar was called Payday. That was my payday. And that candy bar tasted so good, at night I would take one bite, and it was so beautiful.— Charles Bukowski
Somebody once asked me what my theory of life was, and I said, 'Don't try.' That fits the writing, too. I don't try; I just type.— Charles Bukowski
The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.— Charles Bukowski
I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.— Charles Bukowski
Generally, a writer of force is anywhere from 20 years to 200 years ahead of his generation.— Charles Bukowski
Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I'll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master... it's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.— Charles Bukowski
My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.— Charles Bukowski