Talk:Charles Bukowski

July 7 2006 rearrangement

I cleaned up the page, as per wikiquotes template. Some of the attributed quotes are probably from the sources listed, or other sources. If you know they are, please move them, add source etc. Doctormatt 04:05, 8 July 2006 (UTC)

Merges

It is suggested that Ham on Rye be merged into this page ~ Josephina • Talk 2 Me 08:17, 29 October 2019 (UTC)

Unsourced / doubtful attributions

• Live, shit, drinking and smoking should be the daily bread of all poets.

• The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.

Unsourced

• Quotes below, "from the varied and various works of the late Charles Bukowski", as shown in Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist and Other Essays (2017) by Paul Kingsnorth, pp. 14-25 "Upon the Mathematics of Falling Away".
  • If you think I am wandering here, hold your tits or your balls or hold somebody else's. Everything fits here.
  • What matters most is how you walk through the fire.
  • I'm for the true human spirit, wherever it is, wherever it has been hiding.
  • Strange thoughts are like hangovers: you feel better without them.
  • You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Unverified

• The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

Discovered via: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pyu7HAjjmJ0?t=450

Solved, sort of: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/04/self-doubt/#more-10737

~ JasonCarswell (talk) 20:12, 8 November 2020 (UTC)

Attributed

• People are strange. They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

184.175.44.12 04:21, 6 September 2023 (UTC)