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Been Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I think a man can keep on drinking for centuries, he'll never die; especially wine or beer...I like drunkards, man, because drunkards, they come out…
- The hangover was brutal but he didn't mind. It told him he had been somewhere else, someplace good.
- If I hadn't been a drunkard, I probably would have committed suicide long ago.
- I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was…
- I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
- I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I…
- I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all…
- and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed…
- the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the…
- I could scream down 90 mountains to less than dust if only one living human had eyes in the head and heart in the body,…
- I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and…
- I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
- But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something…
- ..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a long…
- Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.
- unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it.…
- The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the…
- Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is.
- They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail,…
- well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, cab-driver, pimp, butcher, sky-diver, I'm going…
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