Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing.

—Charles Bukowski

About Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski ( boo-KOW-skee; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, German: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈkaʁl buˈkɔfski]; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted home city of Los Angeles. Bukowski's work...

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You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

—Charles Bukowski

I don't like jail. They got the wrong kind of bars in there.

—Charles Bukowski

if it doesn't come bursting out of you / in spite of everything, / don't do it. / unless it comes unasked out of your / heart and your mind and your mouth / and your gut, / don't do it.

—Charles Bukowski

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

—Charles Bukowski

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

—Charles Bukowski

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Sex is hardly ever just about sex.

—Shirley MacLaine

You can't remember sex. You can remember the fact of it, and recall the setting, and even the details, but the sex of the sex cannot be remembered, the substantive truth of it; it is by nature self-erasing; you can remember its anatomy and be left with a judgment as to the degree of your liking of it, but whatever it is as a splurge of being, as a loss, as a charge of the conviction of love stopping your heart like your execution, there is no memory of it in the brain, only the deduction that it happened and that time passed, leaving you with a silhouette that you want to fill in again.

—E. L. Doctorow

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If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had if only they persevere.

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But seduction isn't making someone do what they don't want to do. Seduction is enticing someone into doing what they secretly want to do already.

—Zsa Zsa Gabor

I know love and lust don't always keep the same company.

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