Top 66 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski

These are some quotes by American author Charles Bukowski Author, who lived between August 16, 1920 and March 9, 1994.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

I can relax with bums because I am a bum. I don't like laws, morals, religions, rules. I don't like to be shaped by society.

Charles Bukowski

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.

Charles Bukowski

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.

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 don't like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.

Charles Bukowski

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

We're all going to die, all of us; what a circus! That alone should make us love each other, but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities. We are eaten up by nothing.

Charles Bukowski

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

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

Charles Bukowski

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

My writing is jagged and harsh, I want it to remain that way; I don't want it smoothed out.

Charles Bukowski

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our education system.

Charles Bukowski

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