Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. - Charles Bukowski
If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.
- Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it. - Charles Bukowski
It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.
the history of melancholia includes all of us. - Charles Bukowski
the history of melancholia includes all of us.
nobody ever finds the one - Charles Bukowski
nobody ever finds the one
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. - Charles Bukowski
Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong.
Don’t do it. Don’t love me. - Charles Bukowski
Don’t do it. Don’t love me.
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
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.
I'm only interested in poetry. - Charles Bukowski
I'm only interested in poetry.
I hope that death contains less than this. - Charles Bukowski
I hope that death contains less than this.
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