Tag: Charles Bukowski
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I would be married, but I’d have no wife, I would be married to a single life.
Charles Bukowski
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A cat is only itself, representative of the strong forces of life that won’t let go.
Charles Bukowski
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It’s possible to love a human being if you don’t know them too well.
Charles Bukowski
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My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough, as the same cat crouches.
Charles Bukowski
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Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.
Charles Bukowski
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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 Bukowski
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You can do without a woman but not a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‘Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?’ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles Bukowski
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I do not like the human race. I don’t like their heads, I don’t like their faces, I don’t like their feet, I don’t like their conversations, I don’t like their hairdos, I don’t like their automobiles.
Charles Bukowski
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Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
Charles Bukowski