Quotes About Drinking Bukowski

#1. The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. The more laws are promulgated, the more thieves and bandits there will be.

Laozi

#2. ...To study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly ... to listen to stars and buds, to babes and sages, with open heart; await occasions, hurry never ... this is my symphony.

William Henry Channing

#3. Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me.

Charles Bukowski

#4. I published a bunch of my older books in e-book format with Open Road, which is great and has tons of hard to find older books available there.

Rick Moody

#5. The bums were better dressed, younger, but just as listless. They sat around on the window ledges, hunched forward, getting warm in the sun and drinking the free coffee that W.F.I. offered. There was no cream and sugar, but it was free.

Charles Bukowski

#6. I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

Charles Bukowski

#7. I discovered John Fante when I was 17 years old - strangely, not through Charles Bukowski, but through William Saroyan, who was his drinking buddy.

Jonathan Evison

#8. I have sat in the dark here electric (haha) typer off lights out radio off drinking in the dark lighting cigarettes in the dark there was fire off the match we are all burning together burning brothers and sisters I like it I like it I like it.

Charles Bukowski

#9. Bloody Facebook- and to think I'd enjoyed The Social Network. Clearly Mark Zuckerberg was the devil.

Lindsey Kelk

#10. A stone is helpless, because a stone is hard. The stone must by its own nature go downwards, because hardness is weakness.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. You shouldn't believe anything you hear standing outside a plywood window. Everyone knows plywood distorts vowels...words...sayings." -Ariel

Fern Michaels

#12. It does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.

Charles Bukowski

#13. Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#14. Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

Charles Bukowski

#15. Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Charles Bukowski

#16. MAILMAN CAUGHT DRINKING THE BLOOD OF GOD AND TAKING A SHOWER, NAKED, IN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.

Charles Bukowski

#17. I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.

Charles Bukowski

#18. I write right off the typer. I call it my "machinegun." I hit it hard, usually late at night while drinking wine and listening to classical music on the radio and smoking mangalore ganesh beedies.

Charles Bukowski

#19. We both looked down at the stake through my heart.
Funny. I would have thought that should hurt more.
From the look on the vampire hunter's face, he thought it should hurt more too.

Helen Keeble

#20. A snitch determines which data centers and racks to go for in order to make Cassandra aware of the network topology for routing the requests efficiently.

C.Y. Kan

#21. There are a lot of drivers who can carry a car. It doesn't happen very often very successfully. I think it takes a certain amount of sensible bravery. It's no good to be brave and just keep crashing.

Paul Newman

#22. There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.

Charles Bukowski

#23. I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again.

Charles Bukowski

#24. The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

Louis C.K.

#25. Ya got cigarettes?" she asks. "Yes," I say,
"I got cigarettes." "Matches?" she asks.
"Enough to burn Rome." "Whiskey?"
"Enough whiskey for a Mississippi River
of pain." "You drunk?" "Not yet.

Charles Bukowski

#26. It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching.
We had both been robbed.

Charles Bukowski

#27. The British invasion was the most important event of my life. I was in New Jersey and the night I saw the Beatles changed everything. I had seen Elvis before and he had done nothing for me, but these guys were in a band.

Steven Van Zandt

#28. So where do you go? Back to the bottle And back to a tiny room somewhere. And wait. And wait, and wait. That's all.

Charles Bukowski

#29. One thing I won't be doing on a weekend is shopping. I just don't like it, and I haven't bought an article of clothing for a very long time. I usually just take wardrobe from shows I'm on. It's much easier.

Scott Baio

#30. One doesn't even think of
the liver
and if the liver
doesn't think of
us, that's
fine.

Charles Bukowski

#31. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.

Charles Bukowski

#32. That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.

Charles Bukowski

#33. When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.

Charles Bukowski

#34. It's like a movie, I thought, like a fucking movie. It seemed funny to me. It felt as if we were on camera. I liked it. It was better than the racetrack, it was better than the boxing matches. We kept drinking.

Charles Bukowski