Bukowski Friendship Quotes & Sayings

Once in a rare lifetime have you ever been in a roomful of people who only helped you when you looked at them, listened to them. this was one of those magic times. I knew it. — Charles Bukowski

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind. — Marty Rubin

That's what friendship is, sharing the prejudice of experience. — Charles Bukowski

Photography and movies are a much bigger influence on me than music is itself. — Sune Rose Wagner

...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse. — Amin Maalouf

It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go. — Charles Bukowski

Those men ate like food had just been invented — Raynetta Manees

Edible. But I still hated the shows and hated myself for hating them. The clubs were smoky, which hurt my eyes and made my clothes stink. The speakers were always turned up so high that the music blared, causing my ears to ring so — Gayle Forman

Actors are the jockeys of literature. Others supply the horses, the plays, and we simply make them run. — Ralph Richardson

Maybe we should have known that night in Denver that things that begin with plywood Greek columns and artificial smoke typically don't end well. Maybe the Hollywood stars and the glamour blinded us a little: you thought it was the glare, some of us thought it was a halo. — Artur Davis

It's awfully easy to appear silly, Mr. Clement. It's one of the easiest things in the world. — Agatha Christie

You can't strengthen the ranks of your middle class, you can't strengthen and grow the ranks of your businesses and family-owned businesses, unless you are fiscally responsible. — Martin O'Malley

She was the death of me,
the beginning and the end.
And I never understood her,
for how could someone
So beautiful be the cause
of so much destruction
after all. — Robert M. Drake

Any great gift of power or talent is a burden ... But there is nothing to be done. If you were born with the gift, then you must serve it, and nothing in this world or out of it may stand in the way of that service, because that is why you were born and that is the Law. — Susan Cooper

A lot of people have been bent one way or the other on that. I'm not going to weigh in on that; I'm happy to still be at large, I'll just put it that way. — Ron Perlman

I didn't know who to
believe
but
one thing I do
know: when a man is
living
many claim relationships
that are hardly
so
and after he dies, well,
then it's everybody's
party. — Charles Bukowski