“I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.”
"Serpents of Paradise", p. 18
Desert Solitaire (1968)
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“I've never met another man I'd rather be.”
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“My old daddy used to say "kill the closest snake first."”
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“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
Variant: I've never met another man I'd rather be.