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fun and danger hardly put margarine on the toast or fed the cat. You give up toast and end up eating the cat.
#WorkingClassHero
every man is afraid of being a queer. I get a little tired of it. maybe we should all become queers and relax.
the people will always betray you. never trust the people.
#bukowski
we need great audiences.’ well, I always figure a Whitman a greater poet than I, if that matters,
cities are built to kill people,
knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge at all.
“The Violent State of America:
The Violent States of America. One bullet is mightier than one million votes …
“Freedom is being gunned down. The ‘right’ to murder is the ultimate right in this country.
that’s what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.”
when you are given a choice between Nixon and Humphrey it’s like being given a choice between eating warm shit or cold shit.
you just can’t give a man a new government like a new hat and expect a different man inside that hat.
revolution sounds very romantic, you know. but it ain’t. it’s blood and guts and madness;
it’s only what you can’t do that you want to do.
Christ, the last piece of ass I’ve had was in 1966 and I’ve been jacking off ever since. and there just ain’t no jackoff compared to that wonder-hole.
first of all, read Celine. the greatest writer of 2,000 years. of course, THE STRANGER by Camus must fit in. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT. THE BROTHERS. all of Kafka. all the works of the unknown writer John Fante. the short stories of Turgenev.
every man believes that he can tame a nymph but it only leads to the grave — for the man.
a man can go 70 years without a piece of ass but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.
#CharlesBukowski
TIME WOUNDS ALL HEELS.
an intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way.
if you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence
‘When I die they can take my work and wipe a cat’s ass with it. It will be of no earthly use to me.’”
#CharlesBukowski
