All CHARLES BUKOWSKI Quotes about “Drinking”

“Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.”
“I like to change liquor stores frequently because the clerks got to know your habits if you went in night and day and bought huge quantities. I could feel them wondering why I wasn't dead yet and it made me uncomfortable. They probably weren't thinking any such thing, but then a man gets paranoid when he has 300 hangovers a year.”
“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there.”
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didnâ€™t have you by the throat.”
“I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”
“Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores.”
“When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.”
“I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.”
“Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.”
“I still have a little whiskey left and therefore a chance.”

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