Quotable

she is an old woman
now
still quite beautiful
she has known many
famous
men.

we are sitting in a Mexican cafe
and she tells me,
"Hemingway was an amazing
man, he'd sit and
make these off-hand remarks,
one after another, these
astonishing truthful statements..."

I like that.
but I have nothing to
say.

well, I do. I tell her: "the red
sauce in the little bowl
is very hot so
don't use it unless you
like that sort of
thing."

- such statements don't
create a legend
but for ordinary mortals
they still have a
rather
sturdy
worth.

- Written by Charles Bukowski, taken from his book Bone Palace Ballet.
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