{"author":"Charles Bukowski","author_id":"Charles+Bukowski","total_quotes":374,"quotes":[{"text":"Without literature, life is hell.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["literature"],"id":6,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"As long as there arehuman beings aboutthere is never going to beany peacefor any individualupon this earth (oranywhere elsethey mightescape to).All you can dois maybe grabten lucky minuteshereor maybe an hourthere.Somethingis working toward youright now, andI mean youand nobody butyou.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["alone","bukowski","death","force","human-beings","humanity","life","lonely","love","misery","nobody","peace","poem","poetry","society","soul","war"],"id":610,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["age","bukowski","lonely"],"id":1878,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"When women agree with me I always do the other thing.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["agreement-and-attitude","women","women-and-men"],"id":2111,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"I remember yoursaying: 'make itor break it.'neither happened anditwon't.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["bukowski","poetry"],"id":5860,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["writing"],"id":6499,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"The cat is the beautiful devil.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["cat","devil"],"id":10206,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Women were beyond me.They saw somethingdepraved.There was one waitressa little older thanI, she rather smiled,lingered when shebrought mycoffee.That was plenty for me, that wasenough.- Young in New Orleans.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["women"],"id":10478,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["anger","sadness","censorship "],"id":10758,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"},{"text":"Find what you love and let it kill you.","author":"Charles Bukowski","tags":["love"],"id":11078,"author_id":"Charles+Bukowski"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":374,"pages":38,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}