Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechani…

Charles Bukowski
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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.
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I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.
I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.302, Canongate Books
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.
It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any. ✨ Charles Bukowski, Seamus Cooney (1983). The Bukowski Purdy letters: a decade of dialogue, 1964-1974

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.

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