Dull Quote by Charles Bukowski

You simply can't get inside the heads of other people and say to them, 'Look, I went through some rough times.' It's impossible to…

— Carlos Tevez

“It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics and malnutrition.…

— Haruki Murakami

What passed for society was a loud, giddy whirl of thieves and pretentious hustlers, a dull sideshow full of quacks and clowns and philistines…

— Hunter S. Thompson

And, while it was regarded as pretty good evidence of criminality to be living in a slum, for some reason owning a whole street…

— Terry Pratchett

I used to live on the streets.

— Frank Shamrock

I grew up on the brink of poverty in Baltimore and the Bronx during the '80s and '90s. I remember those streets you couldn't…

— Wes Moore

“These were the distractions I had to choose from. There were no other lights burning downtown after nine o'clock. On starlight nights I used…

— Willa Cather

Since the industrial revolution, cities, and especially the inner cities, were the places for the newly arrived. Voluntary immigrants seeking economic betterment, refugees, the…

— Cleve Jones

The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to…

— Charles Dickens

Once I knew the City very well, spent my attic days there, while others were being a lost generation in Paris, I fledged in…

— John Steinbeck

Intelligent, thinking people could take things like this in their stride, just as they took the larger absurdities of deadly dull jobs in the…

— Richard Yates

“A street turned off at right angles, descending, and became a dirt road. On either hand the land dropped more sharply; a broad flat…

— William Faulkner