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Quotes About Frustration

Dripping faucets, farts of passion, flat tires - are all sadder than death.
~ Charles Bukowski
A volte mi sento come fossimo tutti prigionieri di un film. Sappiamo le battute, sappiamo dove metterci, come recitare, manca solo la macchina da presa. Però non possiamo uscire dal film. Ed è un brutto film.
~ Charles Bukowski
You can't get blood out of a fucking turnip!
~ Charles Bukowski
I listened and listened and listened, thinking what will I do now? How will I get this poor mad bastard to shut up? I went home each night dizzy and sick. He was murdering me with the sound of his voice.
~ Charles Bukowski
The '67 model was the last good Volks—and the young men knew it. "Hepburn, they stole our fucking car." "Oh Hank, surely not!" "It's gone. It was sitting there." I pointed. "Now it's gone." "Hank, what will we do?" "We'll take a taxi. I really feel bad." "Why do people do that?" "They have to. It's their way out." We
~ Charles Bukowski
They arrived in 20 minutes with the cleavage but without the beer.
~ Charles Bukowski
I am tired of waiting on life, it was so slow to arrive and so quick to leave.
~ Charles Bukowski
It was worse than Music Appreciation.
~ Charles Bukowski
Let's let the bombs go I'm tired of waiting
~ Charles Bukowski
Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty.
~ Charles Bukowski
Van Gogh escrevendo ao irmão pedindo tintas [...] a impossibilidade de ser humano [...] Shakespeare um plagiador [...] demasiado humano [...]
~ Charles Bukowski
No era mi día. Ni mi semana, ni mi mes, ni mi año. Ni mi vida. ¡Maldita sea!
~ Charles Bukowski
but the worst part is (like jumping off the garage roof) Eugene wins again because he's not even thinking about me.
~ Charles Bukowski
the essayist Montaigne had noted... [Indigenous North Americans] (clarification by me) who visited France... noticed among us some men gorged to the full with things of every sort while their other halves were beggars at their doors, emaciated with hunger and poverty. They found it strange that these poverty-stricken halves should suffer [that is, tolerate] such injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throat or set fire to their houses.
~ Charles C. Mann
They found it strange that these poverty-stricken halves should suffer [that is, tolerate] such injustice, and that they did not take the others by the throat or set fire to their houses.
~ Charles C. Mann
I wish I could explain things better, to make you understand. But I can't. It's just too hard to find the right word.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
DESPITE THE quiet in his apartment, however, and Edie's salutary presence, he couldn't get anywhere on Breakfast of Champions. Many of the pages had been discarded from the manuscript of Slaughterhouse-Five, and he was trying to salvage them. Even so, Vonnegut thought his new novel was so asinine it embarrassed him.150
~ Charles J. Shields
He stabs at the mouse mat with one finger and I wince, but instead of fat purple sparks and a hideous soul-sucking manifestation, it simply wakes up his Windows box. (Not that there's much difference.)
~ Charles Stross
It popped up on my Outlook calendar, flagged in red like an inflamed pimple full of infected bureaucratic pus... I've been trying desperately to get it shifted, but no, it is stuck like a king-sized dildo in a guinea pig.
~ Charles Stross
After a couple of years of death by bureaucratic snu-snu (too many committee meetings, too many tedious IT admin jobs)
~ Charles Stross
over-endowed with WOMBATs." (A WOMBAT is a Waste Of Money, Brains, And Time: the non-IT equivalent of a PEBCAK. (A PEBCAK is a Problem that Exists Between Chair And Keyboard. (You get the picture: it's parenthesized despair all the way down.)))
~ Charles Stross
Annette sighs. Manfred's been upgrading this robot cat for years, and his ex-wife Pamela used to mess with its neural configuration, too: This is its third body, and it's getting more realistically uncooperative with every hardware upgrade. Sooner or later it's going to demand a litter tray and start throwing up on the carpet.
~ Charles Stross
Being management means having to hold your hands behind your back while your inexperienced junior staff crap all over a job you could have done in five seconds—and then taking their mess right on the chin.
~ Charles Stross
I can't get out of here soon enough, he thinks, and glances at his smartwatch—a birthday present from his wife—only to see that it has crashed and frozen on reboot, mocking him with an image of the apple from the tree of knowledge, one bite down.
~ Charles Stross