Charles Bukowski

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#layover #life #living #poetry #life

Love is alright for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss!! ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#psychic-overload #love

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#music

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#music

La mayoría de la muerte de la gente es una farsa, no queda en ellos nada que pueda morir ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#death #spanish #death

The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#attitude

I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#religion

(I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life, marvelous so marvelous like eating cold olives at 3 am with half the town on fire) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life

Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#disneyland #nihilism #death

of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. most movies start badly and steadily get worse ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#movies