The best Quotes from Ham on Rye

The best Quotes from Ham on Rye

Ham on Rye is a 1982 semi-autobiographical novel by American author and poet Charles Bukowski. Written in the first person, the novel follows Henry Chinaski, Bukowski's thinly veiled alter ego, during his early years. Written in Bukowski's characteristically straightforward prose, the novel tells of his coming-of-age in Los Angeles during the Great Depression.

Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, and scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals.
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If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.
I'm rich, I'm miserable - I'm pretty average for this town.
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Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
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We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
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You have to die a few times before you can really live.
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Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
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The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
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Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.
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A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.
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"Do you hate people?"
"I don't hate them... I just feel better when they're not around."
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My ambition is handicapped by laziness.
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Giving a child an education is by far one of the most important investments we can make.
It's wrong to think that an educational system could work without conveying values!
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No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
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Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
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'Baby,' I said, 'I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.'
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She was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty.
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This is presented as a work of fiction and dedicated to nobody.
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Walk until the darkness is a memory, and you become the sun on the next traveler's horizon.
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