For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the…

Charles Bukowski
690 citations
For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 56, 1975.
Reading Truth
12

More Author Quotes

magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.317, Canongate Books
There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure and moving on. Yet most people are stricken with fear. They fear failure so much that they fail. They are too conditioned, too use … ▶
it doesn't matter if Prince Charles falls off his horse or that the hummingbird is so seldom seen or that we are too senseless to go insane. coffee. give us more of that NOTHING coffee.
And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget … ▶
Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 73, 1975.

For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 56, 1975.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes