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Wine Quotes by Charles Bukowski
- Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.
- 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…
- Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or…
- There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and…
- I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!
- 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
- 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…
- 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…
- i am with the roots of flowers entwined, entombed sending up my passionate blossoms as a flight of rockets and argument; wine churls my throat,…
- 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…
- my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II.
- yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down…
- 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.…
- the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much…
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- A sweetheart is a bottle of wine, a wife is a wine bottle. — Charles Baudelaire
- Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
- I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Mirth is the sweet wine of human life. It should be offered sparkling with zestful life unto God. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce