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Quotes About Defiance

There's always somebody about to ruin your day, if not your life.
~ Charles Bukowski
too much acceptance destroys. so listen, my fine fellows and ladies, I am going to ignore your late applause, I intend to still play it loose, commit my errors, enrage the entrenched and piss upon your guardians, angels and / or devils. I intend to do what I have to do, what I have always done. it's been too much fun to falter now.  you will not escape my iron grip and I will escape yours.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am satisfied with my aggressive nature as I tickle death under the armpits.
~ Charles Bukowski
You are a bum, he told me, and you'll always be a bum! and I thought, if being a bum is to be the opposite of what this son-of-a-bitch is, then that's what I'm going to be. and it's too bad he's been dead so long for now he can't see how beautifully I've succeeded at that.
~ Charles Bukowski
You can't beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes.
~ Charles Bukowski
do you drink because you are afraid of life? the interviewer asked. disgusted with life is more like it, said the writer, and with you.
~ Charles Bukowski
the generals and the doctors may kill us but we have won.
~ Charles Bukowski
What foolishness makes us tweak the nose of Death continually?
~ Charles Bukowski
The back was something the assholes had never figured out how to amputate.
~ Charles Bukowski
Mi ricordo che un giorno ricevetti una lettera furibonda da un tale il quale sosteneva che non avevo diritto di dire che Shakespeare non mi piace. Troppi giovani mi avrebbero creduto senza nemmeno darsi la pena di leggere Shakespeare. Non avevo diritto di affermare una cosa simile. E così via. Non gli ho mai risposto. Lo faccio adesso. Fottiti amico. E non mi piace nemmeno Tolstoj.
~ Charles Bukowski
we were like some last, vast final dinosaur crawling feebly home somewhere, somehow, maybe to die.
~ Charles Bukowski
But somehow, I've got to get out, and make sure that almost all humanity is still a large piece of crap.
~ Charles Bukowski
Isa psikiyatirlarin ve egolarin en buyuguydu. Tanri'nin oglu oldugunu idia etti.Paragozleri kliseden atti. Yaptigi en buyuk hata. Sictilar agzina.Bir civi tasarruf etmek icin ayaklarini ust uste civilediler. Ne boktan is.
~ Charles Bukowski
When I die they can take my work and wipe a cat's ass with it. It will be of no earthly use to me.
~ Charles Bukowski
I was going to get the beatings anyhow so I might as well have the fun.
~ Charles Bukowski
SCREW YOU GUYS! I'M A GENIUS!
~ Charles Bukowski
Let's let the bombs go I'm tired of waiting
~ Charles Bukowski
Kad se žena jednom okrene protiv tebe pusti sve u materinu... Ona te još možda i voli, ali se u njima nešto preokrene. A onda kad se preokrene, mogu te gledati kako crkavaš u jarku, pa još te pregaziti autom i na tebe pljunuti.
~ Charles Bukowski
your life is your life don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
~ Charles Bukowski
baÅŸkalar? bana, allah aÅŸk?na, Hank, ne buluyorsun bu herifte? diye sorduklar?nda, hey, benim kahraman?m o, herkesin mutlaka bir kahraman? olmal?, derim. koca adam purolar?n? tüttürmeye ve içmeye devam eder. iÅŸemeye bile kalkmaz, kalkmas? gerekmez, zahmete deÄŸmez.
~ Charles Bukowski
But she knew the black hole pulled at you. You stand up to it, or you go down.
~ Charles Frazier
By way of conclusion, Luce said, I lived through it [the rape], so if you can't stand to hear it, you can take me home and go to hell. Men get so damn strange sometimes.
~ Charles Frazier
many of Bear's stories and comments shared a general drift. They advised against fearing all of creation. But not because it is always benign, for it is not. It will, with certainty, consume us all. We are made to be destroyed. We are kindling for the fire, and our lives will stand as naught against the onrush of time. Bear's position, if I understood it, was that refusal to fear these general terms of existence is an honorable act of defiance.
~ Charles Frazier
But the de-emphasized had the temerity to try to look after themselves in ways that resisted monetization. Their
~ Charles Stross