Charles Bukowski · 240 pages
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“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“إننا نعيش كل حياتنا كالحمقى ثم نموت في نهاية المطاف”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“She had chosen me and it was as simple as that.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“I got my hands under the breasts, lifted them. Tons of meat. Meat without mouth or eye. MEAT MEAT MEAT. i slammed it into my mouth and flew into heaven.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“الفرق بين الديموقراطية والديكتاتورية أننا في الديموقرطية ننتخب أولاً ثم نتلقى الأوامر، أما في الديكتاتورية فلا حاجة إلى تضييع الوقت في الإنتخابات ص 270”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“هل توجد حكومات جيدة وحكومات سيئة؟ لا، هناك حكومات سيئة فقط وحكومات أشد سوءًا ص 273”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“I went into the crapper and took myself a beautiful beershit. Then I went to bed, jacked off, and slept.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“Two bulls fighting for the cow. And a bony one at that. But in America the loser oftentimes got the cow. Mother instinct? Better wallet? Longer dick? God knows what.…”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“Oh, you’ve got a sweet voice, baby, such a sad sad sweet voice, I’d like to fuck you, I thought.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“I bought two tall six-packs of Schlitz and went back to my place and drank down the requiem.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“But I gave the girl my address and phone number, thinking we might make it on the springs. (Harriet, you never arrived.)”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“But it’s all the little people, Buk, the twenty-five-buck-a-week guys who gave up everything to keep the thing going. The guys with cardboard in their shoes. The guys who slept on the floor.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“العمر ليس جريمة، الجريمة أن غالبية البشر يهرمون على نحو سيء ص 286”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“They kept chirping and flipping and fingering their mental assholes.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“It was con; my mind was blank; I only wanted a halfpint of Grandad and six or seven tall cool beers . . .”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“At lunchtime (10:24 p.m.) I went out and bought the L.A. Times.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“الجمال لا شيء، الجمال لا يدوم، لا تعلم كم أنت محظوظ لأنك قبيح، لأن الناس لو أحبوك فأنت تعلم أنهم يحبوك لشيء آخر ص 11”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“البشر الصغار هم دائماً كبش الفداء، هذا هو التاريخ ص 196”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“راهنوا فقط عندما تسمحون لأنفسكم بالخسارة. أعني من دون أن تجدوا أنفسكم تنامون على مقعد في حديقة أو فاتتكم 3 أو 4 وجبات. الأهم، هو أن تدفعوا إيجار الشقة أولاً. تجنبوا الضغوط ص 159”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“So I drank every night after work, alone, up at my place and I had enough left for a day at the track on Saturday, and life was simple and without too much pain. Maybe without too much reason, but getting away from pain was reasonable enough.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“...there comes a time in each man's life when he must choose to stand or run. I choose to stand.”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“وحدهم الفقراء من يفهمون معنى الحياة، أما الأغنياء والامنون يمكنهم أن يخمنوا فقط ص 175”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“يتطلب الأمر جرأة لتحاول مرة أخرى ص 195”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“لم يكن الكلب يكترث كم أملك أو لا أملك من المال. كلب حقيقي ص 140”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“هذا ما يفكر فيه الجميع: أنا لا انتمي إلى هنا. هذا ما يقوله كل فردٍ منهم بينه وبين نفسه.
هم محقون، وماذا بعد ؟ ص 141”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“أنا عبقري ولكن لا أحد يعرف ذلك سواي ص 147”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“الجشع البشري لا يعرف حدوداً ويواصل تغذية نفسه ص 156”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
“إذا أردتم أن تعرفوا أي الطرق هي الأنسب، اختاروا الطريقة المعاكسة لخيار الجمهور ص 156”
― Charles Bukowski, quote from The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
Charles Bukowski
Born place: in Andernach, Germany
Born date August 16, 1920
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