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Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.

Charles Bukowski
Hate, People, Giving

The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.

Charles Bukowski
Giving, Mad, Alternatives
Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

When you play the field selfishly everything works against you: one can’t insist on love or demand affection. you’re finally left with whatever you have been willing to give which often is: nothing.

Charles Bukowski
Play, Often Is, Giving

I mean, say that you figure that everything is senseless, then it can't be quite senseless because you are aware that it's senseless and your awareness of senselessness almost gives it sense. You know what I mean?

Charles Bukowski
Mean, Giving, Awareness

Writing is like going to bed with a beautiful woman and afterwards she gets up, goes to her purse and gives me a handful of money.

Charles Bukowski
Beautiful, Writing, Giving

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

Charles Bukowski
Heart, Hands, Giving

I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension.

Charles Bukowski
Evil, Giving, Feel Good
Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting.

Charles Bukowski
Giving, Advice, Painting
"Notes of a Dirty Old Man".

I give you soul. I give you wisdom and light and music and a bit of laughter. Also, I am the world's greatest horseplayer.

Charles Bukowski
Laughter, Light, Giving

Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy.

Charles Bukowski
Boys, Giving, Parent
Charles Bukowski (2001). “Ham On Rye”, p.53, Canongate Books

All our days are marked with/ unexpected/ affronts--some/ disastrous, others/ less so/ but the process is/ wearing and/ continuous./ Attrition rules./ Most give/ way/ leaving/ empty spaces/ where people should/ be.

Charles Bukowski
Space, People, Giving

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