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Things Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.
- I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.
- 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…
- Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and…
- The courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.
- Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
- I had no feeling for the things so many others needed.
- Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things…
- Things will be far worse than they are now. And far better. I wait.
- the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
- 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…
- there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and…
- I once lay in a white hospital for the dying and the dying self, where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things…
- she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty
- we drove on and on, past little villages and both good things and bad things were happening to the people in those villages too, but…
- ...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 masses are everywhere they know how to do things: they have sane and deadly angers for sane and deadly things.
- I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.
- Things get bad for all of us, almost continually, and what we do under the constant stress reveals who/what we are.
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