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Tales of Ordinary Madness QUOTES

Tales of Ordinary Madness QUOTES

1 " sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

2 " that's what kills a man: lack of change. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

3 " that's ONE thing that's wrong with intellectuals and writers - they don't feel a hell of a lot except their own comfort or their own pain. which is normal but shitty. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

4 " Something else is hurting you - that’s why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can’t think. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

5 " to whom it may concern: please phone me for appointments when you want to see me. I will not answer unsolicited knocks upon the door. I need time to do my work. I will not allow you to murder my work. please understand that what keeps me alive will make me a better person toward and for you when we finally meet under easy and unstrained conditions. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

6 " We’ve all heard that little woman who says, “Oh, it’s terrible what these young people do to themselves, in my lsi other drugs, is a terrible thing”.
Then you look, the woman who speaks in this way: you have no eyes, no teeth, no brains, no soul, no ass, no mouth, no warmth, no spirit, nothing, just a stick… and avran made ​​you wonder how to reduce it in that state teas and pastries and the church. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

7 " to ask them to legalize pot is something like asking them to put butter on the handcuffs before they place them on you, something else is hurting you - that's why you need pot or whiskey, or whips and rubber suits, or screaming music turned so fucking loud you can't think, or madhouses or mechanical cunts or 162 baseball games in a season. or vietnam or israel or the fear of spiders. your love washing her yellow false teeth in the sink before you screw. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

8 " I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

9 " the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

10 " Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it’s for something else. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

11 " Forgive me, I guess I am off in the head, but I mean, except for a quickie piece of ass it wouldn't matter to me if all the people in the world died. Yes, I know it's not nice. But I'd be as contended as a snail; it was, after all, the people who had made me unhappy. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

12 " I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

13 " Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

14 " a bad trip? this whole country, this whole world is on a bad trip, friend. but they'll arrest you for swallowing a tablet. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

15 " ¿no hay gente feliz?

—hay mucha gente que finge ser feliz.

—¿por qué?

—porque están avergonzados y asustados y no tienen el valor de admitirlo.

—¿tú estás asustado?

—yo sólo tengo el valor de admitirlo contigo... estoy tan asustado y tengo tanto miedo, mamá, que podría morirme en este mismo instante. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

16 " Sólo un zoquete tiene bolsas llenas de consejos y respuestas a todas las preguntas. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

17 " Examinar la propia mente es lo peor que puede hacer un loco. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

18 " El mundo se ha llevado de mí muchas horas y años con sus tareas anodinas y rutinarias "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

19 " Saber mantener el equilibrio justo entre soledad y gente, ésa es la clave, ésa es la táctica, para no acabar en el manicomio. "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness

20 " the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them... "

― Charles Bukowski , Tales of Ordinary Madness