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Charles Bukowski Quotes

Charles Bukowski quotes about kindness

American Author, Writer, Poet August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994

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After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's... Charles Bukowski
There was no sense to life, to the structure of things. D.H. Lawrence had known that. You needed love, but not the kind of love most people used and were used up by. Old D.H. had known something. His buddy Huxley was just an intellectual fidget, but what a marvelous one. Better than G.B. Shaw with that hard keel of a mind always scraping bottom, his labored wit finally only a task, a burden on himself, preventing him from really feeling anything, his brilliant speech finally a bore, scraping... Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Life's as kind as you let it be."
Life's as kind as you let it be. Charles Bukowski
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 polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there. Charles Bukowski
Oh, I don’t mean you’re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they’re beautiful. They’re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire. Charles Bukowski
I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. Charles Bukowski
Anything is a waste of time unless you are fucking well or creating well or getting well or looming toward a kind of phantom-love-happiness. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man..."
Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more..."
she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind. Charles Bukowski
Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I met Betty on the street. "I saw you with that bitch a while..."
I met Betty on the street. "I saw you with that bitch a while back. She's not your kind of woman."None of them are. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness..."
The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy. Charles Bukowski
Charles Bukowski quote: "I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there."
I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there. Charles Bukowski

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