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“Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, just look at the cats, you'll feel better, because they know that everything is, just as it is.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you’ll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“The cat is the beautiful devil.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“about
our argument tonight
whatever it was
about
and
no matter
how unhappy
it made us
feel

remember that
there is a
cat
somewhere
adjusting to the
space of itself
with a delightful
wonderment of
easiness.

in other words
magic persists
without us
no matter what
we do
against it.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“Animals are inspirational. They don’t know how to lie. They are natural forces.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“I don’t like love as a command, as a search. It must come to you, like a hungry cat at the door.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“when I am feeling low all I have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns.         I study these creatures.         they are my teachers.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“A cat is only itself.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“TV can make me ill in five minutes, but I can look at an animal for hours and find nothing but grace and glory, life as it should be.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“warm light alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“I walked up the driveway. The cats were sprawled about, pooped. 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. Humans are too miserable and angry and single-minded.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“Writing is also my cat. Writing lets me face it.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“the strays keep arriving: now we have 5 cats and they are tenuous, flighty, con- ceited, naturally bright and awesomely beautiful.         one”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats

“And a cat never knows fear—finally—he only winds up into the spring of the sea and the rock, and even in a death-fight he does not think of anything except the majesty of darkness.”
― Charles Bukowski, On Cats