Run With the Hunted Quotes

“The first children of my age that I knew were in kindergarten. They seemed very strange, they laughed and talked and seemed happy. I didn’t like them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“How much shit does a man have to take just to stay alive?” “Plenty,” came the answer, “and more …”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“You can feel your life being pounded to a pulp by the useless waste of time.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn’t consider was that I had my troubles too—most of them caused by simply living with them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“when you take it away do it slowly and easily make it as if I were dying in my sleep instead of in my life, amen.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“To do things, simple things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother’s Day … was a man born just to endure those things and then die?”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“Nekalayla claimed he had once been walking through the desert when he met Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ told him everything. They sat on a rock together and J.C. laid it on him. Now he was passing the secrets on to those who could afford it. He also held a service every Sunday. His help, who were also his followers, rang in and out on timeclocks.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“SHUT THAT GOD-DAMNED THING OFF!” there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to protect me from Hitler so I snapped the radio off and then heard his wife say, “you shouldn’t have done that.” and the soldier said, “FUCK THAT GUY!” which I thought was a very nice thing for him to tell his wife to do. of course, she never did.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“love poem to a stripper 50 years ago I watched the girls shake it and strip at The Burbank and The Follies and it was very sad and very dramatic as the light turned from green to purple to pink and the music was loud and vibrant, now I sit here tonight smoking and listening to classical music but I still remember some of their names: Darlene, Candy, Jeanette and Rosalie. Rosalie was the best, she knew how, and we twisted in our seats and made sounds as Rosalie brought magic to the lonely so long ago. now Rosalie either so very old or so quiet under the earth, this is the pimple-faced kid who lied about his age just to watch you. you were good, Rosalie in 1935, good enough to remember now when the light is yellow and the nights are slow.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“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, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“the cat crawled under rockers on porches tail flashing and said something angry to the mockingbird which I didn’t understand.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“the place to find the center is at the edge”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“I had to take a shit but instead I went into this shop to have a key made.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“I took the salt and pepper, seasoned the broth, broke the crackers into it, and spooned it into my illness.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“We have an opening for a dishwasher. Fifty cents an hour and you get to grab Rita’s ass every once in a while.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“las sensaciones de bienestar surgen en los momentos más extraños...”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With the Hunted : A Charles Bukowski Reader

“Y levanto los ojos hacia
la ventana y pienso,
ya no sé dónde estás,
y sigo andando y me pregunto
adónde va la vida
cuando se detiene”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader

“Hijo, aire y luz y tiempo y espacio
no tienen nada que ver con la creación
y no crean nada
más que, quizá, una vida más larga para encontrar nuevas excusas
para no hacerlo”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With the Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader