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Charles Bukowski 555
American writer 1920–1994Related quotes
Variant: If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
“I'm just an alcoholic who became a writer so that I would be able to stay in bed until noon.”
Source: Jsem jen alkoholik, co se stal spisovatelem, aby mohl zůstat v posteli do poledne.
“Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.”
Source: Time You Let Me In: 25 Poets under 25
“Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”
City Aphorisms (1984)
“That guy is so quick, he can switch off the light and get into bed before the room is dark.”
Gibson making an assessment on fast winger Andrew Ettingshausen during his summary of a match on television.
The "Camelot" interview (29 November 1963)
Context: But there's this one thing I wanted to say... I'm so ashamed of myself... When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical... no, don't protect me now... I kept saying to Bobby, I've got to talk to somebody, I've got to see somebody, I want to say this one thing, it's been almost an obsession with me, all I keep thinking of is this line from a musical comedy, it's been an obsession with me... At night before we'd go to sleep... we had an old Victrola. Jack liked to play some records. His back hurt, the floor was so cold. I'd get out of bed at night and play it for him, when it was so cold getting out of bed... on a Victrola ten years old — and the song he loved most came at the very end of this record, the last side of Camelot, sad Camelot... "Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment that was known as Camelot."... There'll never be another Camelot again...