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Charles Bukowski

German-American writer

1920–1994

7 quotes.

My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.
Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny
- Motivation & Goals
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.
Post Office (1971)
- Work
An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
Notes of a Dirty Old Man (1969)
- Art
- Intelligence
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.
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)
- Life & Death
- Love
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.
Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
I’ve never met another man I’d rather be.
in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
- Pride
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.
Tales of ordinary madness (1967-83)
- Freedom

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