{"id":4378,"date":"2014-01-27T19:44:57","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2014-01-27T19:44:57","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T16:44:57","slug":"charles-bukowski-on-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.keikari.com\/english\/charles-bukowski-on-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Bukowski on style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Style is the answer to everything.<\/p>\n<p>A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thing<\/p>\n<p>To do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without it<\/p>\n<p>To do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art<\/p>\n<p>Bullfighting can be an art<\/p>\n<p>Boxing can be an art<\/p>\n<p>Loving can be an art<\/p>\n<p>Opening a can of sardines can be an art<\/p>\n<p>Not many have style<\/p>\n<p>Not many can keep style<\/p>\n<p>I have seen dogs with more style than men,<\/p>\n<p>although not many dogs have style.<\/p>\n<p>Cats have it with abundance.<\/p>\n<p>When Hemingway put his brains to the wall with a shotgun, that was style.<\/p>\n<p>Or sometimes people give you style<\/p>\n<p>Joan of Arc had style<\/p>\n<p>John the Baptist<\/p>\n<p>Jesus<\/p>\n<p>Socrates<\/p>\n<p>Caesar<\/p>\n<p>Garc\u00eda Lorca.<\/p>\n<p>I have met men in jail with style.<\/p>\n<p>I have met more men in jail with style than men out of jail.<\/p>\n<p>Style is the difference, a way of doing, a way of being done.<\/p>\n<p>Six herons standing quietly in a pool of water, or you,<\/p>\n<p>naked, walking out of the bathroom without seeing me.<\/p>\n<p>~ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DrRu1LCJtl0\">Charles Bukowski<\/a> in\u00a0<em>Mockingbird Wish Me Luck<\/em>, 1972<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Style is the answer to everything. 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