Charles Bukowski

Author

Germany

1920 - 1994

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There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.
Charles Bukowski
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
Those who have been writing literature have not been writing life.
Charles Bukowski
A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won't let go.
Charles Bukowski
My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.
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
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.
Charles Bukowski
I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski