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Hands Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain.
- there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
- ...in that drunken place you would like to hand your heart to her and say touch it but then give it back.
- They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where…
- They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,…
- the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want…
- I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on…
- I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite make out what it is. It takes time.
- You don't go on "probably" when love and guns are in hand.
- my hands dead my heart dead silence adagio of rocks the world ablaze that's the best for me.
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