"Some people never go Crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live"

[RAV TUX]

help me indentify who said this....

[RAV TUX]

help me indentify who said this....

same person also said:

something like:

"an intellectual takes something simple and makes it sound complex, while an artist takes something complex and makes it sound simple"

[SoulinEther]

same person also said:

something like:

"an intellectual takes something simple and makes it sound complex, while an artist takes something complex and makes it sound simple"
If it helps it wasn't Einstein; he said pretty much the opposite of what you just said.

[steven8]

Charles Bukowski for #1:

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/some_people_never_go_crazy-what_truly_horrible/157914.html

Maybe #2, but I have to look.

[RAV TUX]

If it helps it wasn't Einstein; he said pretty much the opposite of what you just said.
Actually wasn't it Einstein who said pretty much the same thing?

"If you can not explain something technical in simple terms, it means you don't understand it"

[RAV TUX]

Charles Bukowski for #1:

http://thinkexist.com/quotation/some_people_never_go_crazy-what_truly_horrible/157914.html

Maybe #2, but I have to look.

ahhh Thanks Steven8!

Charles Bukowski what an interesting character....I like this quote of his also:

“Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them.”

and this one (this guy is a pure genius):

“Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink.”

[RAV TUX]

Charles Bukowski what an interesting character....I like this quote of his also:


His funeral rites were conducted by Buddhist monks. His gravestone reads: "Don't Try".

[steven8]

Yeah, he had lot's of neat stuff to say. I really like the gravestone too. Great stuff! :)

I can't pin down the other quote, though. I'll keep looking.

[RAV TUX]

Yeah, he had lot's of neat stuff to say. I really like the gravestone too. Great stuff! :)

I can't pin down the other quote, though. I'll keep looking.

No worries it was him also:


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

Charles Bukowskihttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Bukowski/

[RAV TUX]

Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowskihttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Bukowski/

[RAV TUX]

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 Bukowskihttp://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Charles_Bukowski/

[RAV TUX]

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

Charles Bukowski (1920 - 1994)http://www.quotationspage.com/search.php3?Author=Charles+Bukowski&file=other

[RAV TUX]

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
Charles Bukowskihttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_bukowski.html

[RAV TUX]

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowskihttp://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_bukowski.html

[RAV TUX]

my hump-backed laughing soul

http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1972-12-03-my_hump-backed_laughing_soul.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

[RAV TUX]

the bells

http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1972-05-19-the_bells.jpg&inbook=what%20matters%20most%20is%20how%20well%20y ou%20walk%20through%20the%20fire&inmag=&onpage=91

[RAV TUX]

This must be a classic Bukowski...awesome Poem!


I can't see anything
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1972-12-03-i_cant_see_anything.jpg&inbook=the%20night%20torn%20mad%20with%20footsteps&inmag=&onpage=198

[smoker]

my favourtie Bukowski quote is:


When you drink, the world's still out there, but just for the moment it hasn't got you by the throat!

:-)

[RAV TUX]

my favourtie Bukowski quote is:



:-)Awesome!

Here is another classic Bukowski poem:

the red pigeon

http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1975-12-03-the_red_pigeon.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

[Fenryr]

Charles Bukowski...See link
http://thinkexist.com/quotation/some_people_never_go_crazy-what_truly_horrible/157914.html

[RAV TUX]

o.d.
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1975-12-03-o_d.jpg&inbook=&inmag=The%20Coldspring%20Journal&onpage=0

[RAV TUX]

my father and the bum
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1975-09-06-my_father_and_the_bum.jpg&inbook=what%20matters%20most%20is%20how%20well%20y ou%20walk%20through%20the%20fire&inmag=&onpage=17

[steven8]

What a great quote:


. . .you know,
all that's come to this
is everything we've deserved

the dark is empty;
most of our heroes have been
wrong.

[RAV TUX]

What a great quote:

The guy was brillant, like a Kafka set free....

here is another great poem:

Dog

http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1977-01-08-dog.jpg&inbook=Love%20is%20a%20Dog%20From%20Hell&inmag=&onpage=123

[RAV TUX]

from


"Hunchback"

moments of damnation and moments of glory
tick across my roof.

the cat walks by
seeming to know everything.
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1976-11-20-hunchback.jpg&inbook=what%20matters%20most%20is%20how%20well%20y ou%20walk%20through%20the%20fire&inmag=&onpage=225

[steven8]

The guy had something on the ball to be investigated by the FBI!

[RAV TUX]

The guy had something on the ball to be investigated by the FBI!

Yeah but they never came up with anything....crazy FBI....they could be watching you and I for all we know....

3 pairs of panties
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1975-12-03-3_pairs_of_panties.jpg&inbook=the%20night%20torn%20mad%20with%20footsteps&inmag=&onpage=140

[smoker]

Yeah but they never came up with anything....crazy FBI....they could be watching you and I for all we know....

WE ARE;)

[steven8]

WE ARE;)

I should have combed my hair. . . :popcorn:

[RAV TUX]

WE ARE;)

Well lets try to make it interesting for them, can you imagine how boring it must be to watch a bunch of boring people...

FBI UBUNTU CRIME UNIT!


ummmm...
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1976-09-13-ummmm.jpg&inbook=what%20matters%20most%20is%20how%20well%20y ou%20walk%20through%20the%20fire&inmag=&onpage=131

[RAV TUX]

I should have combed my hair. . . :popcorn:

I better brush my teeth....

This one had me ROTFL:

The Fortune Teller
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1976-09-05-the_fortune_teller.jpg&inbook=&inmag=We%20Are%20The%20Secret%20Living%20Leprosy&onpage=0

[smoker]

FBI UBUNTU CRIME UNIT!

FBI Ubuntu Crime Kontrol
:-)

[RAV TUX]

FBI Ubuntu Crime Kontrol
:-)

agent 99 I presume?

This one reminds me of fushia:

a touch of steel
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1976-03-27-a_touch_of_steel.jpg&inbook=what%20matters%20most%20is%20how%20well%20y ou%20walk%20through%20the%20fire&inmag=&onpage=261

[steven8]

I would tell that fortune teller I want my palm read, she might pull out a paint brush!! :)


FBI Ubuntu Crime Kontrol

kCrimeStoppers!!

[RAV TUX]

Ow
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1977-11-26-ow.jpg&inbook=Legs,%20Hips%20and%20Behind&inmag=&onpage=111

[RAV TUX]

I would tell that fortune teller I want my palm read, she might pull out a paint brush!! :)



kCrimeStoppers!!

Khaos


Silk
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1977-11-13-silk.jpg&inbook=&inmag=The%20Wormwood%20Review%20Vol.%2019%20No.%20 4%20Issue%2076&onpage=157

[steven8]

drinking a coffee at McDonald's
out of a paper cup
is almost more victory than we can
hope for.

Ouch!

[RAV TUX]

Ouch!

...and I thought Phillip K. **** was rough ;)

The Finish of Moby ****
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1977-11-26-the_finish_of_moby_****.jpg&inbook=Legs,%20Hips%20and%20Behind&inmag=&onpage=102

[RAV TUX]

Heres another one that made me LOL

Overt Population
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1977-12-18-overt_population.jpg&inbook=&inmag=The%20Wormwood%20Review%20Vol.%2020%20No.%20 1%20Issue%2077&onpage=40

[RAV TUX]

Mosquito
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1978-06-05-mosquito.jpg&inbook=&inmag=Out%20of%20Step&onpage=0

[steven8]

she knew something that
night
she let me go that time
without the vast
emotional
harangue

and I believe it was not
too much later
that it happened without
the mosquito at
all

adios!! :)

[RAV TUX]

the answer
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1979-08-26-the_answer.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

[RAV TUX]

adios!! :)

wait....I took it to mean next time he was with her the mosquito wasn't there?

the fix
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1979-08-26-the_fix.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

[steven8]

wait....I took it to mean next time he was with her the mosquito wasn't there?

the fix
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1979-08-26-the_fix.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

I took it to mean that next time he didn't need the excuse of the mosquito. She was kind of stuck on herself, saying most men, once having her, wouldn't leave.

[RAV TUX]

I took it to mean that next time he didn't need the excuse of the mosquito. She was kind of stuck on herself, saying most men, once having her, wouldn't leave.

ahhh....perhaps your right

The German Hotel
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1979-05-30-the_german_hotel.jpg&inbook=&inmag=The%20Wormwood%20Review%20Vol.%2021%20No.%20 1/2%20Issue%2081/82&onpage=34

damn night clerk....

[RAV TUX]

don't sit under the apple tree with anyone else but me

http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1982-11-22-dont_sit_under_the_apple_tree.jpg&inbook=Open%20All%20Night&inmag=&onpage=360


selection is half the
road to
victory;
the other half is
indifference to
yourself.

[steven8]

ahhh....perhaps your right

The German Hotel
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1979-05-30-the_german_hotel.jpg&inbook=&inmag=The%20Wormwood%20Review%20Vol.%2021%20No.%20 1/2%20Issue%2081/82&onpage=34

damn night clerk....

That's the beauty of poetry. No two people interpret it the same.

NEVER trust the night clerk. Not only are they horrible about ice and corkscrews, sometimes they walk in at the most inopportune times. :popcorn:

[steven8]

the problems
are
yours.

That says it all. . .

[RAV TUX]

That's the beauty of poetry. No two people interpret it the same.

NEVER trust the night clerk. Not only are they horrible about ice and corkscrews, sometimes they walk in at the most inopportune times. :popcorn:

Yes, they can tend to be a bit of bass-turds

now here is a classic that I am sure every writer has felt...

]]]]]
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1992-05-19-]]]]].jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

[steven8]

Yes, they can tend to be a bit of bass-turds

now here is a classic that I am sure every writer has felt...

]]]]]
http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1992-05-19-]]]]].jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0

I have a script sitting half finished that can attest to that!

[RAV TUX]

That says it all. . .

his earlier stuff seemed more dark and coarse...

different enough from most, I guess this is what he most be known most for....like the Rock Star of poets....you can just see him blowing smoke into reporters faces and saying that "he can't be a man because he don't smoke the same cigarettes as me"...or maybe not...maybe something more original

dig me a ditch (http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1974-03-12-dig_me_a_ditch.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0)

[RAV TUX]

heres another that brought a smile to my face:

teeth
(http://bukowski.net/vault/display_man.php?show=poem1974-07-09-teeth.jpg&inbook=[publication%20unknown/unpublished]&inmag=&onpage=0)