1,615 Quotes by Charles Bukowski

Bedno sam se osećao što ne mogu da ga hvalim bez rezerve. Ali ako lažeš čoveka o njegovom talentu samo zato što sedi prekoputa tebe, to je najneoprostivija od svih laži, jer ga podstiče da produži sa tim, da nastavi, što je najgori način za čoveka bez istinskog talenta da straći svoj život. Mnogi ljudi baš to i čine, uglavnom prijatelji i rođaci.

I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn’t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn’t let me.

I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic.

At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole god-damned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves.” ― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

The best of youI like more than you think. the others don't count except that they have fingers and heads and some of them eyes and most of them legs and all of them good and bad dreams and a way to go.

öğleden sonra 2 birasıhiçbir şeyin önemi yokbir yatakta debelenmekten başkaucuz hayaller ve bir biraylayapraklar ölürken ve atlar ölürkenve ev sahibeleri koridorlarda dikmiş gözlerini bakarken;canlıdır müziği çekilmiş perdelerin,sinek sürülerive patlamalar sonsuzundason insan'ın mağarası;hiçbir şeyin önemi yok sızdıran lavabodan başka,boş şişedenkeyiften,kıstırılmışbıçaklanmış ve traş edilmiş gençlikten başka,kendisine sözcükler öğretilipölsün diye arkası yastıkla desteklenmişgençlikten başka.

It seemed better to delay thinking.

That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.

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