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Post Office
Charles Bukowski
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive.”
“I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
“But now and then, a woman walks up, full blossom, a woman just bursting out of her dress…a sex creature, a curse, the end of it all.”
“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 have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.”
“Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly – all else is desperation.”
“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.”
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
“It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed.”
“Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.”
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love, life, work, women-s-strength