I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself. Charles Bukowski More Quotes by Charles Bukowski More Quotes From Charles Bukowski Great art is horseshit, buy tacos. Charles Bukowski great-art tacos art I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one. Charles Bukowski mets lucky men Before my death I hope to obtain my life. Charles Bukowski What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. Charles Bukowski women want sex It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. Charles Bukowski seems mistake People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws. Charles Bukowski wind believe people Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love Charles Bukowski need-god needs Our disappointment sits between us. Charles Bukowski disappointment little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted. Charles Bukowski dog mother running The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable. Charles Bukowski unbearable distance two Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art Charles Bukowski bullfighting boxing art For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. Charles Bukowski arcs ends I feel no grief for being called something Charles Bukowski grief feels facts There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too used to being told what to do. It begins with the family, runs through school and goes into the business world. Charles Bukowski running school moving I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic. Charles Bukowski quilts reading book there is always one woman to save you from another and as that woman saves you she makes ready to destroy Charles Bukowski one-woman women ready Death is nothing, brother, it's life that's hard Charles Bukowski hard brother I like women who haven’t lived with too many men. I don’t expect virginity but I simply prefer women who haven’t been rubbed raw by experience. There is a quality about women who choose men sparingly; it appears in their walk in their eyes in their laughter and in their gentle hearts. Women who have had too many men seem to choose the next one out of revenge rather than with feeling. When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. You’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing. Charles Bukowski laughter revenge heart When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing. Charles Bukowski often-is play giving If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence. Charles Bukowski jail friendship interesting
