Bukowski quotes

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Mercy

"There were no judgements to be made, yet out of necessity one had to select. Beyond good and evil was all right in theory, but to go on living one had to select: some were kinder than others, some were simply more interested in you, and sometimes the outwardly beautiful and inwardly cold were necessary. The kinder ones fucked better, really, and after you were around them a while they seemed beautiful because they were."

"Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence."

"But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."

 
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Mercy

what a guy!

"There is a problem with writers. If what a writer wrote was published and sold many, many copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold a medium number of copies, the writer thought he was great. If what a writer wrote was published and sold very few copies, the writer thought he was great. If what the writer wrote never was published and he didn't have enough money to publish it himself, then he thought he was truly great. The truth, however, was there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers had the most confidence, the least self-doubt. Anyway, writers were to be avoided, and I tried to avoid them, but it was almost impossible. They hoped for some sort of brotherhood, some kind of togetherness. None of it had anything to do with writing, none of it helped at the typewriter." - women
 
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Mercy

"She could talk. If she was a sphinx she could have talked, if she was a stone she could have talked. I wondered when she'd get tired and leave. Even after I stopped listening it was like being battered with tiny pingpong balls."

"A good writer knew when not to write. Anybody could type. Not that I was a good typist; also I couldn't spell and I didn't know grammar. But I knew when not to write. It was like fucking. You had to rest the godhead now and then."
 
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Mercy

"The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. The was almost always a man and a woman, staring straight ahead, not talking. It was, finally, for everyone, a matter of waiting. You waited and you waited- for the hospital, the doctor, the plumber, the madhouse, the jail, papa death himself. First the signal red, then the signal was green. The citizens of the world ate food and watched t.v. and worried about their jobs or lack of the same, while they waited."
 
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Mercy

"Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
Ham on Rye
 
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hank solo

hank solo

Just practicin' steps and keepin' outta the fights
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Mercy
While your enthusiasm is great to see, perhaps you're over doing it with the wholesale copy and pasting of quotes from other quote sites huh? Posting a quote every now and then as you read the books makes sense, but posting en masse like this is a bit pointless.
 
Dr. Zorders

Dr. Zorders

"But you know, the terror is always there, man. The ugliness is always there. There's no way out. You can get a beautiful woman living with you and she can be more ugly than putting your quarter into a newspaper stand, lifting it up and taking out the next day's news. There's never any escape from anything at all. You're always going to be burned.
There's never any pleasantness, easiness anywhere. You're gonna be burnt down to the grave. No matter how much you know, no matter how much you feel, you're gonna be burnt, burnt, burnt, burnt. Until the last minute you breathe.
When you open a cap on a mustard jar you're gonna be burnt. When you open up a can of cat food you're gonna be burnt.
Everything's burning. All you're trying to do is walk across a room and drink a glass of water and take it easy. But there are always things burning and ripping at you. It's the whole universe, it's everythng. Women, men, friends, everything. Rips and tears, man. It rips and it tears. All you wanna do... The best thing, it seems, is a good eight hours sleep if you can get it. If you can't you might as well get drunk. Hell."
 
the only good poet

the only good poet

One retreat after another without peace.
I coined a term for certain family members and aquaintances who obsessively quote on social media. I call them the Facebook philosophers. Kind of catchy, huh?
 
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Mercy

hank solo well, this forum is about sharing bukowski quotes, that's why i created it. how it's done is not defined and should not matter. what matters are the quotes and the fact that i like them...and anyone who shares a quote does so because they like them. hopefully they read what has already been posted so as not repeat what is already posted. if not so what? and people can post as many times and as often as they want. at the end of the day, this forum could just be a space for reading as many bukowski quotes as one wants to.

i don't get what you mean by it being pointless, and quite honestly, i don't care. also, you and no one else can tell me how to share Bulowski quotes. You, or no one else can dictate the degree of my enthusiasm to me. To me what i post has a point and that point is this: i like this quote and i'm sharing it. i like these quotes and i'm sharing them. for my pleasure. end of story. If others read it and enjoy, great. if not, move on. If you don't like the way i'm sharing quotes, please feel free to do what you and your supporters have gotta do. There are more alternatives out there.

And if you own this forum and you feel an overwhelming need to get rid of me. go right ahead. either way it means absolutely nothing to me. and it does not change how i do my things as far as being enthusiastic about Bukowski goes. Facebook Philosopher or whatever, who are the miserable people? The ones who feel free to do what they want, as they want when they want or the ones with a need to control the free spirited because they are caged in the dullness of their own misery? Pu-lease!
 
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Mercy

and i don't know if it is old age or just plain dullness of spirit that makes people feel a need to dictate to others or what? nothing sickens me more. yes i am arrogant and yes my ego is too big. but seriously what is wrong with copying and pasting posts here? what? is it not quotes that people want to read? or i should type them directly from the books i'm reading when they are already out there on other sites that take more time to find? sheez!
 
chronic

chronic

old and in the way
Wow...I thought Hank Solo was very nice, polite and encouraging in his comment, and you lash out about how you'll do what you want and you don't care and blahblahblah.

What an ass.

And I was just starting to think you were okay.
 
mjp

mjp

Founding member
Mercy said:
at the end of the day, this forum could just be a space for reading as many bukowski quotes as one wants to.
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Oh, no thank you.

Mercy, Mercy, Mercy. You make me laugh. But you're kind of stupid. Which is fine, but if you're going to be stupid, it's always advisable to have a thick skin. You, however, don't seem to have any god damn skin at all, so maybe this isn't the best place for you.
 
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Mercy

thanks for the insult chronic. seeing that you're a kiss ass, i'll just say, if i cared what others thought of me, wow ... i'd probably be the kiss ass that you are. no thank you. i'm happy being the mad woman that i am. i have no humility and i'm not going to start now. too late for me. i'm nice if you don't provoke me, subtly or otherwise. hank solo would not appreciate me doing the same to him if he were in my place. unless i was abusing someone with the mass posting or quotes, [which was the original idea in the first place my gosh!]. there was no need for hank to say what he said in my view. and if he had sent it in a private message, maybe, just maybe i would have been just as 'nice' in my private reply back. and not post anymore quotes. i'm done with this. what is this?
 
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Mercy

you're right smart, wise and omnipotent mjp. this place is not for me. my muscles and bones and bone marrow can't handle this. it drives me insane. although it gives me material for my work. i'm outta here. not for me.
 
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Mercy

oh, and one more thing before i really go, dear perfect people on here feeling a need to attack me [because they have nothing better to do with their time, such as reading quotes i post], do feel free to delete all my mass quotes. whatever rocks ya mojos. i aint got no thick skin on me body, i aint gonna grow one ever, and i aint gonna stand for no crap. no. no. no. as ya'll can see, i'm an ass and stupid. i don't belong with these perfect ones on here. my time is probably best spent on goodreads and creating something more in the nature of bukowski.
 
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