Barfly: Movie Quotes

— 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.

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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must live.

— 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.

— 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.

We're all in some kind of hell. And the madhouse is the only place, where people know they're in hell.

It's hatred. It's the only thing that lasts.

— 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.

— 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.

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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.

Hey Talia, I'm not pretending to be anything. That's the point.

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Henry Chinaski

Sarcastic 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.

Hey, anybody can get a job. Takes a man to make it without working.

— 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.