Hosho > Hosho's Quotes

“I knew he believed in something that none of us ever do anymore. He believed in the nastiest word in the world. He believed in KINDNESS. Please tell me you remember kindness. Please tell me you remember kindness and joy, you cool motherfuckers.”
― Scott McClanahan, Crapalachia: A Biography of a Place

“Only fascists drink white wine!”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“Tanqueray & Tonic: It’s like you…only better!”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“They don't give blue ribbons to second-place beers.”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“Stalking
the dusty curio-aisles of
some crazy Asian market,
“Jezus,” you say
to your buddy,
“we should ask that dude
which aisle the fucking
Gremlins are on…”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“Here’s what we’re
gonna do,” he says,
“we’re gonna pick up
those rocks right there,
and we’re gonna
smash out the windows
of that cop car…”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“Riiiight,” you interrupt,
“I was just checking
to make sure that
what me and my friend do
was actually none of your
goddamned
business…”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“I’m gonna shine myself
about 20 pair-a shoes,
make about $100...
or I'm gonna
kill somebody…”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“so your uncle tells
your brother,
“There’s more
chairs in the
shed.”

And your brother says,
under his breath
so almost no one
can hear, “Well,
what if I don't
want to sit
in the shed?”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“You the drunkest
white man I
ever seen!” one says,
which you take as
high praise,”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“And after he drives away your
buddy says, “A fucking
Jaguar? Seriously?”

“Honestly,” you say,
“he deserved to have his
fence smashed up
just for that.”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“It ain’t just anyone
who’d come for us
after sixteen years…”
― Hosho McCreesh

“Drink up,” he says,
“being a little drunk
makes everything
a little bit
better.”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“He didn't say
he was a lawyer...
I said he was.”

And the cop says
“Uh…”
― Hosho McCreesh, A Deep and Gorgeous Thirst

“Laugh up to the end
and
through it.”
― Hosho McCreesh

“Just keep answering the goddamned bell.”
― Hosho McCreesh

“KEEP BOOKS DANGEROUS
Support small press
publishers, writers,
& artists.”
― Hosho McCreesh

“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.”
― Henry Miller

“I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.”
― Henry Miller

“...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The miracle is that the honey is always there, right under your nose, only you were too busy searching elsewhere to realize it. The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous.”
― Henry Miller

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
― Charles Bukowski

“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.”
― Charles Bukowski

“All around me were the noise of the crazy gold-coast city. And this was my Hollywood career - this was my last night in Hollywood, and I was spreading mustard on my lap in back of a parking-lot john.”
― Jack Kerouac, On the Road: The Original Scroll

“Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind.”
― Jack Kerouac

“Accept loss forever.
”
― Jack Kerouac

“The worst is not death but being blind, blind to the fact that everything about life is in the nature of the miraculous. The language of society is conformity; the language of the creative individual is freedom. Life will continue to be a hell as long as people who make up the world shut their eyes to reality.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.”
― Henry Miller, Stand Still Like the Hummingbird

“You have to pick the places you don't walk away from.”
― Joan Didion

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live...We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices. We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the "ideas" with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“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.”
― Charles Bukowski