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title: "10 Cat Quotes By Charles Bukowski"
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> [when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/when-i-am-feeling-low-all-i-have-to-do-is-watch-my-cats-and-my/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on. It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/some-people-have-written-that-my-writing-has-helped-them-go-on-it-has/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [terror finally becomes almost bearable but never quite terror creeps like a cat crawls like a cat across my mind](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/terror-finally-becomes-almost-bearable-but-never-quite-terror-creeps/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [I think that the world should be full of cats and full of rain, that's all, just cats and rain, rain and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-think-that-the-world-should-be-full-of-cats-and-full-of-rain-that-s/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/in-my-next-life-i-want-to-be-a-cat-to-sleep-20-hours-a-day-and-wait/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire… Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/pain-is-strange-a-cat-killing-a-bird-a-car-accident-a-fire-pain/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/the-more-cats-you-have-the-longer-you-live-if-you-have-a-hundred-cats/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/that-moment-to-this-may-be-years-in-the-way-they-measure-but-it-s/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/and-now-sometimes-i-m-interviewed-they-want-to-hear-about-life-and/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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> [pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/pull-a-string-a-puppet-moves-each-man-must-realize-that-it-can-all/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

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## More by Charles Bukowski

> [“sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/sometimes-when-everything-seems-at-its-worst-when-all-conspires-and/)

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> [well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/well-death-says-as-he-walks-by-i-m-going-to-get-you-anyhow-no-matter/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. A writer who has to go into the streets is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/there-is-only-one-place-to-write-and-that-is-alone-at-a-typewriter-a/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/even-the-stove-and-the-refrigerator-looked-human-i-mean-good-human/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“nerves twitching in the sheets -- to face the sunlight again, that's clearly trouble. I like the city better when the neon lights are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/nerves-twitching-in-the-sheets-to-face-the-sunlight-again-that-s/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“Their Love Is Average, Seeks Average But There Is Genius In Their Hatred”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/their-love-is-average-seeks-average-but-there-is-genius-in-their/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I climbed the stairway (there was no elevator) and put the key in. The door swung open. Somebody had changed all the furniture around,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-climbed-the-stairway-there-was-no-elevator-and-put-the-key-in-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“Strangers when you meet, strangers when you part -a gymnasium of bodies namelessly masturbating each other. People with no morals often considered themselves more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/strangers-when-you-meet-strangers-when-you-part-a-gymnasium-of-bodies/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-like-to-change-liquor-stores-frequently-because-the-clerks-got-to/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I was like a turd that drew flies instead of like a flower that butterflies and bees desired. I wanted to live alone,I felt…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-was-like-a-turd-that-drew-flies-instead-of-like-a-flower-that/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/it-s-4-30-in-the-morning-it-s-always-4-30-in-the-morning/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-had-no-feeling-for-the-things-so-many-others-needed/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“I am sick with caring.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-am-sick-with-caring/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/i-went-home-each-night-dizzy-and-sick-he-was-murdering-me-with-the/)

[Charles Bukowski](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-bukowski/)

> [“the nights you fight best are when all the weapons are pointed at you, when all the voices hurl their insults while the dream…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-bukowski/the-nights-you-fight-best-are-when-all-the-weapons-are-pointed-at-you/)

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