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 don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

I don't write so much now. I'm getting on 33, pot belly and creeping dementia.

Charles Bukowski

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.

Charles Bukowski

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

To not to have entirely wasted one's life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.

Charles Bukowski

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

It's when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

Charles Bukowski

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

Charles Bukowski

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

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