“She was desperate and she was choosey at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what she imagined herself to be.”

— Charles Bukowski, Factotum

“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”

—Charles Bukowski

“Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.”

—Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

—Charles Bukowski

“Me gustan las personas desesperadas, con mentes rotas y destinos rotos. Están llenos de sorpresas y explosiones. Me encuentro bien entre marginados porque soy un marginado. No me gusta ser modelado por la sociedad.”

—Charles Bukowski.

“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock people so tired mutilated either by love or no love. people just are not good to each other”

—Charles Bukowski (excerpt from The Crunch)

“Supongo que siempre hay algo ahí fuera con lo que queremos torturarnos.”

—Charles Bukowski

“You know the typical crowd, "Wow, it's Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there?" Well, yeah. Because there's nothing out there. It's stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves.”

—Charles Bukowski

“I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love. ”

—Charles Bukowski, “As the Sparrow”

“Algún día, cuando se demuestre que el mundo tiene cuatro dimensiones en vez de sólo tres, un hombre podrá salir a dar un paseo y desaparecer porque sí. Sin funerales, sin lágrimas, sin ilusiones, sin cielo ni infierno.”

—Charles Bukowski, Factotum.

“Puedo sentir cómo el dolor se arrastra por todo mi ser. Igual que una segunda piel. Me gustaría poder cambiar de piel como las serpientes.”

Se busca una mujer, Charles Bukowski
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