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Down Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world.
- 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,…
- To me, nudity is a joke. I don't think nude people are very attractive at all. I like my women fully clothed. I like to…
- I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.
- you've got to burn straight up and down and then maybe sidewise for a while and have your guts scrambled by a bully and the…
- When a writer is swayed with his fame and his fortune, you can float him down the river with the turds.
- i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.
- There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody…
- I like the way Mahler wandered about in his music and still retained his passion. He must have looked like an earthquake walking down the…
- I walk into the kitchen, look at the typer down there on the floor. It's a dirty floor. It's a dirty typer that types dirty…
- lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.
- Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how…
- I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I…
- After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said,…
- 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…
- When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.
- When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen.
- It's just that the grape has me down.
- He asked, "What makes a man a writer?" "Well," I said, "it's simple. You either get it down on paper, or jump off a bridge.
- This is a world where everybody’s gotta do something. Ya know, somebody laid down this rule that everybody’s gotta do something, they gotta be something.…
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