Tag: Charles Bukowski
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Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful.
Charles Bukowski
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Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.
Charles Bukowski
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I don’t like the clean-shaven boy with the necktie and the good job. I like desperate men, men with broken teeth and broken minds and broken ways. They interest me. They are full of surprises and explosions.
Charles Bukowski
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I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.
Charles Bukowski
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To do a dull thing with style-now that’s what I call art.
Charles Bukowski
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To not to have entirely wasted one’s life seems to be a worthy accomplishment, if only for myself.
Charles Bukowski
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Humanity, you never had it to begin with.
Charles Bukowski
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If you’re losing your soul and you know it, then you’ve still got a soul left to lose.
Charles Bukowski
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Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you’re feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you’ll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There’s nothing to get excited about. They just know. They’re saviours.
Charles Bukowski
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The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It’s truly ridiculous.
Charles Bukowski