Quotes About Independence

My eyes were blue and my shoes were old and nobody loved me. But I had things to do.

I could make it. I could win drinking contests, I could gamble. Maybe I could pull a few holdups. I didn't ask much, just to be left alone.

it's the same for most of us but one of the best things I learned was to stay out of the bars and also to try to stay off the street. I fail sometimes to stay off the streets but not too often. the finest place on earth to drink is in your own place and alone. you probably know all this. all right.

You realize when you're plucked out of the mainstream that it doesn't need you or anybody else.

Beware Those Who Seek Constant Crowds; They Are Nothing Alone

we finally got free of one another. it's sad but it's standard operating procedure (I am constantly confused by the lack of durability in human affairs).

If I'm intelligent at all I will stay out of the woman game. But it's difficult. I had four years of perfect solitude and strength, and then one knocked on the door...

if you get married they think you're finished and if you are without a woman they think you're incomplete.

after you've pulled off the tablecloth with the full plates of food and broken the windows and rung the bells of idiots and have spoken true and terrible words and have chased the mob through the doorway- then comes the great and peaceful moment: sitting alone and pouring that quiet drink. the world is better without them. only the plants and the animals are true comrades. I drink to them and with them. they wait as I fill their glasses.

Only the strong can live alone, the strong and the selfish.

but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive

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.

it took me a long time to find the most interesting person to drink with: myself

And I mean you and nobody but you.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me.

I like to choose. I have to care.

Nobody bother us, we bother nobody.

Siempre es bueno saber que puedes vivir sin una persona sin la que pensabas que nunca serías capaz de vivir.

loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

A number of men tried to catch her eye, but she walked close by my side, holding my arm. Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were, and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding love back and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then usually, there was trouble.

Me resulta difícil encontrar un héroe a estas alturas, así que tengo que crear mi propio héroe: yo mismo.

Well, I asked him. I said, 'Master, what can I do to make my work better?'" "No shit?" "No shit." "What'd he say?" "He said, 'I can't tell you anything about your work. You must do it all by yourself.'" "Ha.

The big moment came. I sat the typewriter down on the desk and I put a piece of paper in there and I hit the keys. The typewriter still worked. And there was plenty of room for an ashtray, the radio and the bottle. Don't let anybody tell you different. Life begins at 65.

Tabi,Hank ne zaman istersen bende sicabilirsin.