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Room Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- 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…
- 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…
- ...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…
- I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.…
- 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…
- soon I'll finish this 5th of Puerto Rican rum. in the morning I'll vomit and shower, drive back in, have a sandwich by 1 p.m.,…
- pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the…
- My objection to war was not that I had to kill somebody or be killed senselessly, that hardly mattered. What I objected to was to…
- in this room the hours of love still make shadows.
- First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
- I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was…
- the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they…
- there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.…
- little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little…
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