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Simply Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.
- The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so…
- I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that…
- When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My…
- Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said?…
- the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much…
- Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against…
- Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them…
- As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People…
- 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…
- I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up.…
- I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to…
- Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in…
- human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent.
- they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?
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