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The People Look Like Flowers at Last QUOTES

1 " crawled like a blind slug into the
web "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

2 " great writers are indecent people
they live unfairly
saving the best part for paper.

good human beings save the world
so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
become immortal.
if you read this after I am dead
it means I made it. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

3 " What a woman wants is a reaction. What a man wants is a woman. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

4 " To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

5 " beware women grown
old
who were never
anything but
young "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

6 " I am sick with caring. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

7 " A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

8 " 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 , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

9 " purple does something strange to me "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

10 " The wisdom to quit is all we have left. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

11 " there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

12 " I am a series of small victories and large defeats. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

13 " You have to die a few times before you can really
live. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

14 " she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

15 " dogs and angels are not
very far apart "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

16 " in that drunken place
you would
like to hand your heart to her
and say
touch it
but then
give it back. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

17 " I sit here
drunk now.
I am
a series of
small victories
and large defeats
and I am as
amazed
as any other
that
I have gotten
from there to
here
without committing murder
or being
murdered;
without
having ended up in the
madhouse.

as I drink alone
again tonight
my soul despite all the past
agony
thanks all the gods
who were not
there
for me
then. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

18 " I said goodbye again
sucking up all that was left of her into the
little that was left of
me. I said, 'don't look for me again. fuck it.
we are all lost. goodbye, goodbye. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

19 " it was like any other
relationship, there was
jealousy on both sides,
there were split-ups and
reconciliations.
there were also fragmented moments of
great peace and beauty.

I often tried to get away from her and
she tied to get away from me
but it was difficult:
Cupid, in his strange way, was really
there. "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last

20 " whiskey makes the heart beat faster
but it sure doesn't help the
mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just
from the deadly drone of
existence? "

― Charles Bukowski , The People Look Like Flowers at Last