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“I thought about breakups, how difficult they were, but then usually it was only after you broke up with one woman that you met another. I had to taste women in order to really know them, to get inside of them. I could invent men in my mind because I was one, but women, for me, were almost impossible to fictionalize without first knowing them. So I explored them as best I could and I found human beings inside.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Breakups, Finding New Relationships
“People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Bach, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Ignorance, Life, Lifestyles
“The thought of sex as something forbidden excited me beyond all reason. It was like one animal knifing another into submission.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Taboo, Sex, Forbidden
“Education was the new god, and educated men the new plantation masters.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Education, Knowledge Is Power, Secular Theology, New Gods
“Time was motionless while existence was a throbbing unbearable thing.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Time, Life, Unhappy
“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 diminished me, they sucked me dry.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Anti-Social, Alone, Traffic, People Are Vampires
“I was glad I wasn’t in love, that I wasn’t happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: At Odds, Love, Love Makes You Boring
“That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Alcohol, Drinking, Getting Drunk
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
— Charles Bukowski, Women
Tagged: Being Alone, Alone
“I quickly learned that being Secretary of State is really three jobs in one: the country’s chief diplomat, the President’s principal advisor on foreign policy, and the CEO of a sprawling Department.”
— Hillary Clinton, Hard Choices
Tagged: Secretary of State, What the Secretary of State Does