All CHARLES BUKOWSKI Quotes about “Animals”

“Animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. Neither do I. Maybe that's why we get along.”
“Oh, I donâ€™t mean youâ€™re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - theyâ€™re beautiful. Theyâ€™re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire.”
“After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.”
“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”
“Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.”
“People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.”

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