Showing posts with label Charles Bukowski. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles Bukowski. Show all posts

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Bukowskisms

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

“If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose”

"I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
"An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way."
"To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art. "
"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. "