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Out Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with…
- Never get out of bed before noon.
- 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…
- I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I…
- Love is kind of like when you see a fog in the morning, when you wake up before the sun comes out. It's just a…
- There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out.
- 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…
- Success is always dangerous. It can make an asshole out of anybody.
- The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
- I am a poem. There is no way out.
- Don't ever write a novel unless it hurts like a hot turd coming out.
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same.
- The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which…
- The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the "Watchtower" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out,…
- If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it.
- There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going…
- Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same. It yanks you out…
- there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's…
- I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that…
- 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…
- ...maybe a damned good night's sleep will bring me back to a gentle sanity. But at the moment, I look about this room and, like…
- The apartment was built at the edge of a high cliff so that when you looked out the back window it seemed as if you…
- What's genius? I don't know but I do know that the difference between a madman and a professional is that a pro does as well…
- Everything is beautiful. We have all this beauty in the world and all we have to do is reach out and touch it, it is…
- What? You’d dare drink right after getting out of jail for intoxication?” That’s when you need a drink the most.
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