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In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass.

Charles Bukowski
Sleep, Cat, Waiting
Charles Bukowski (2015). “On Cats”, p.98, Canongate Books

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting Around, Waiting, Problem

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Charles Bukowski
Should Have, Rose, Waiting

Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd.

Charles Bukowski
Knives, Waiting, Soul
"Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space.

Charles Bukowski
Heart, Space, Waiting
Charles Bukowski (2009). “You Get So Alone at Times”, p.26, Harper Collins

Somebody at one of these places asked me: "What do you do? How do you write, create?" You don't, I told them. You "don't try". That's very important: not to try, either for Cadillacs, creation or immortality. You wait, and if nothing happens, you wait some more. It's like a bug high on the wall. You wait for it to come to you. When it gets close enough you reach out, slap out and kill it. Or if you like it's looks, you make a pet out of it.

Charles Bukowski
Wall, Writing, Waiting

I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting, Pumps, Term
Charles Bukowski (1978). “Women”

I wasn’t going anywhere and neither was the rest of the world. We were all just hanging around waiting to die and meanwhile doing little things to fill the space. Some of use weren’t even doing little things. We were vegetables.

Charles Bukowski
Vegetables, Space, Waiting

Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.

Charles Bukowski
Women, Waiting, Good Woman
"Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

Sometimes there's luck, When there is you stock up on it and wait for the other times

Charles Bukowski
Waiting, Luck, Sometimes

That was the trouble with being a writer, that was the main trouble—leisure time, excessive leisure time. You had to wait around for the buildup until you could write and while you were waiting you went crazy, and while you were going crazy you drank and the more you drank the crazier you got.

Charles Bukowski
Crazy, Writing, Waiting

You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal .

Charles Bukowski
Animal, Waiting, Lays
"The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993".

I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting, Shadow, Hell

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Charles Bukowski
Book, People, Waiting

there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting

Charles Bukowski
Wall, Waiting, Moss
Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.152, Canongate Books

Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.

Charles Bukowski
People, Waiting, Complaining

there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski
Waiting, Pull Ups, Rail
Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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