— I can't stand people. I hate them. — Oh, yeah? — You hate them? — No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around. Barfly Wanda Wilcox Henry Chinaski human, people hate life quotes
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live. Barfly life madness Ironic Quotes
— Just one thing. I don't ever want to fall in love. I don't wanna go through that. I can't. — Don't worry. Nobody's ever loved me yet. Barfly Wanda Wilcox Henry Chinaski being in love, crush Sad Quotes
— It was next door 308, two ambulance guys carried him out. He'd been knifed. — Was he alive? — He must have been, he was smoking a cigarette. Barfly Wanda Wilcox Henry Chinaski Ironic Quotes
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. Charles Bukowski Women loneliness
I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her. I didn't want conversation, or to go anywhere except the racetrack or the boxing matches. I didn't understand t.v. I felt foolish paying money to go into a movie theatre and sit with other people to share their emotions. Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateur drunks, the bores. Charles Bukowski Women personality I worldview, outlook quotes about myself
— You can really write. Why do you live like a bum? — I am a bum. What do you want me to do? Do you want me to write about the sufferings of the upper classes? — This may be news to you but they suffer too. — Hey baby, nobody suffers like the poor. Barfly Henry Chinaski Tully Sorenson poor, poverty misery
— Anything else bothering you? — Yeah. I don't like you. — That's just the nature of the way things work. I don't like you. You don't like me. Barfly the neighbor from room 308 Henry Chinaski Sarcastic Quotes
— You know, in the guest house, you could write in peace. — Hey, Tully baby, nobody who could write worth a damn could ever write in peace, Jesus. Barfly Tully Sorenson Henry Chinaski calm writing Meaningful Quotes
— Why don't you stop drinking? Anybody can be a drunk. — Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth. Barfly Tully Sorenson Henry Chinaski alcohol (drug) drunkenness Sarcastic Quotes
I decided to live to be 80. Think of being 80 and fucking an 18 year old girl. If there was any way to cheat the game of death, that was it. Charles Bukowski Women sex death aging men
— Young man like you, drunk every day at noon. You oughta get yourself a job! — I have one. — Oh, Really? — Yeah, killing the cockroaches in that place of yours. — Son of a bitch. Kiss my tuchas. Barfly The old woman Henry Chinaski work drunkenness Sarcastic Quotes