The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live 10 times longer than if you have 10. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever. It's truly ridiculous.
Charles Bukowski
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NALINI SINGH You dont have to live forever just live. NATALIE BABBITT We were looking for some animals that we could bring to the school that have similar traits of the b... LAURA WARNER There's kind of a toll you have to pay with a cat; if you don't pet her for 10 minutes she... SCOTT ADAMS If you do everything you should do, and do not do anything you should not do, you will, according to... LOGAIN CLENDENING At present cats have more purchasing power and influence than the poor of this planet. Accidents of ... DEREK WALL The darkest day, If you live till tomorrow will have past away. WILLIAM COWPER I always say 'thriller;' if they see you're a woman - and you're a blond woman - peo... KARIN SLAUGHTER It isn't truly a fear of death but fearing you haven't actually lived your life and won't have the o... DR.'S RICK AND SUSANN CRAWFORD If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar... 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BE with those you LOVE.
HAVE the things you LOVE.
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CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI