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# A Few Great Charles Bukowski Quotes
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/a-few-great-charles-bukowski-quotes/
- Published: 2024-03-02T05:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2024-04-05T11:00:09.000Z
- Description: His headstone features a graphic of a boxer and the Zen-inspired epitaph “Don’t try.”
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Biography, Briefly, Food and Drink

“I don’t hate people. I just feel better when they’re not around.”

“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat.”

“When you clean up a city you kill it.”

"My readers are the defeated, the demented and the damned — and I am proud of it.”

[Charles Bukowski’s Favorite Los Angeles LocationsTime Magazine called Charles Bukowski “laureate of the lowlife.” He was a student of the gritty streets who wrote about the shadow side of…![](https://cdn-static-1.medium.com/_/fp/icons/Medium-Avatar-500x500.svg)WritingAndTypingLoren Kantor![](https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:714/1*O2XgAslXUceXfWfIwh5O3Q.png)](https://medium.com/writingandtyping/charles-bukowskis-favorite-los-angeles-locations-74798c06236a?ref=thedailyeudemon.com)

[Micro-Bio: Charles Bukowski“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.” That’s Charles Bukowski. The Bard of Booze. Legendary drunk, cult favorite, darling of the L.A. literary underground. His true life stories fueled Barfly![](https://thedailyeudemon.com/favicon.ico)The Daily EudemonEric Scheske![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/ea/fd/eafdb338-c9b6-4f87-8363-78ab94cc3a18/content/images/2023/01/Bukowski_Tavern.jpg)](https://thedailyeudemon.com/micro-bio-charles-bukowski/)