Charles Bukowski Quotes About Whiskey
-
Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard.
→ -
You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey.
→ -
There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he's in there.
→ -
whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn't help the mind and isn't it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?
→ -
the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on
→ -
I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.
→ -
I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.
→
Related Authors
-
Sylvia Plath Poet -
Allen Ginsberg Poet -
Friedrich Nietzsche Philologist -
Jack Kerouac Novelist -
Edgar Allan Poe Author -
Franz Kafka Writer -
Charles Dickens Writer -
Anton Chekhov Physician -
Bret Easton Ellis Novelist -
Henry Miller Writer -
Ernest Hemingway Author -
Chuck Palahniuk Novelist -
Robert Crumb Cartoonist -
Louis-Ferdinand Celine Novelist -
William S. Burroughs Novelist -
John Fante Novelist -
Fyodor Dostoevsky Novelist -
Hunter S. Thompson Journalist -
Charles Baudelaire Poet -
Tom Waits Singer-songwriter