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Streets Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without…
- Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself.
- The streets were full of insane & dull people. Most of them lived in nice houses and didn't seem to work, and you wondered how…
- there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds
- I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love.
- 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 got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if…
- 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…
- 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…
- There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a…
- Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.
- The street to my left was backed up with traffic and I watched the people waiting patiently in the cars. There was almost always a…
- why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by…
- What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I…
- I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they…
More Streets Quotes
- Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can… — Hannah Arendt
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama
- Absolutely, it's a really weird stage because at the minute, I can walk down the street and be unrecognised, lead a normal… — James Blunt
- A citizen at his home in Rockford, Illinois, or Boulder, Colorado, could read a newspaper, listen to a radio, or watch the… — Jeff Greenfield
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I think of being an actor as kind of a young man's gig. It's emasculating, in a way, people messing with you… — Kevin Bacon
- My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark… — Russell Baker
- There's less critical thinking going on in this country on a Main Street level - forget about the media - than ever… — Alec Baldwin