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Charles Bukowski Quotes

American - Author | August 16, 1920 - March 9, 1994

I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles.

Charles Bukowski

Feet Race Human Human Race Faces

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski

Man Hell Lady Envy Living Never

Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.

Charles Bukowski

Library Must Whole Read Between

My days, my years, my life has seen up and downs, lights and darknesses. If I wrote only and continually of the 'light' and never mentioned the other, then as an artist, I would be a liar.

Charles Bukowski

Life Light Liar My Life Artist Days

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

Yourself Friends You Know Want Jail

Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.

Charles Bukowski

Genius Idiot Born Almost Everybody

The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.

Charles Bukowski

Live Cats People You Ridiculous

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

Charles Bukowski

Love Style Spring Writing Small

I have no definite talent or trade, and how I stay alive is largely a matter of magic.

Charles Bukowski

Talent Magic Alive Matter Trade How

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

Love Exploration Betrayal Torture

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski

Bed Never Out Get Noon Before

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

Simple Intelligence Genius Say Way

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