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Gregory Boyington
“Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum.”
Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, Baa Baa Black Sheep

Jack Kerouac
“It's impossible to fall of mountains you fool!”
Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Cornell Woolrich
“The honky-tonk bartender, who doubled as bouncer, waiter, and cashier, was in no mood to compromise. Mercy was not in him. He came out around the open end of the long counter, waddled threatening across the floor in a sullen, red-faced fury and began to shake the inanimate figure lying across the table with its head bedded on its arms. "Hey, you! Do your sleeping in the gutter!"

If you gave these bums an inch; they took a yard. And this one was a particularly glaring example of the genus bar-fly. He was in here all the time like this, inhaling smoke and then doing a sunset across the table. He'd been in here since four this afternoon. The boss and he, who were partners in the joint - the bartender called it jernt - would have been the last ones to claim they were running a Rainbow Room, but at least they were trying to give the place a little class, keep it above the level of a Bowery smoke-house; they even paid a guy to pound the piano and a canary to warble three times a week. And then bums like this had to show up and give the place a bad look!

He shook the recumbent figure again, more roughly than the first time. Shook him so violently that the whole reedy table under him rattled and threatened to collapse. "Come on, clear out, I said! Pay me for what you had and get outa here!" ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")”
Cornell Woolrich, The Fantastic Stories of Cornell Woolrich

Will Advise
“All my friends are bums. We all gather round our camp-fire (in a can) and sing songs of togetherness as we cuddle, to preserve our warmth...”
Will Advise

T.D. Badyna
“You wonder what had happened, when a feller like that, in a place like that, talked of a childhood that might have as easily belonged to a millionaire, a lawyer, a schoolteacher, you. You had to think he was defective somehow, or had fucked up not once, not twice, but again and again, a peculiar resolve to his life. That was the thing, that resolve. We didn鈥檛 credit it. You looked at him and your brain said he was on the losing end of one of the two bargains that America made with you. There was the romantic one, that of the rambler, the man out seeking his destiny, living by his wits, all that horseshit. Then there was the classical American dare, that you could risk all, take an internal grudge and make of it a billion dollars and get a monumental tomb in the bargain. But the truth was neither. America was a grindstone. She used those notions as twin abrasives to wear you down into a dutiful drudge walking the straight and narrow. But there was something in the hearts of the some men, some of whom became Fritz, that wouldn鈥檛 accept that. These men in crummy bars, some of them, most of them, they were main-chance fellers. You could take ten of these wrecks and offer them a salesman鈥檚 job, a dozen white shirts and ties, forty Gs a year and perks, a neat house on a quiet street, a yard, a car, a dog, a wife, an expense account, a Chinese laundryman, membership in a church, grandkids who鈥檇 bounce on their knees, and you鈥檇 be lucky if one or two took you up on it. And those two would be the most defeated, the most broken and worn down. Take the same ten and offer them eight dollars a day to be litter bearers on a great adventure, a hike after a lost civilization, a one in hundred shot at survival, a one in thousand shot at a fabulous fortune of jewels and gold, and if you provided rum along the way, nine of the ten would sign up. I guarantee it. I guarantee too that the one or two who took the salesman鈥檚 job鈥攚ithin a year or two or three, he鈥檇 be fucking up again and again, no matter how many chances you gave him. He鈥檚 a main-chance feller, and even if he didn鈥檛 have the brains or the luck to make it work, he still couldn鈥檛 abide the line others toed, even if he couldn鈥檛 think of anything else to do with his life but the miserable American two step鈥攖oe the line, fuck up, toe the line, fuck up....”
T.D. Badyna, Flick

Jack Kerouac
“Sheila mia艂a w艂asn膮 walizk臋 i my ze Slimem te偶 i poszli艣my na przystanek i kupili艣my Sheili bilet i zaczekali艣my z ni膮 na autobus. Ale kiedy ten autobus szykowa艂 si臋 ju偶 do odjazdu, wszyscy byli艣my strasznie smutni i wystraszeni. 鈥濲ad臋 w ciemn膮 noc鈥� powiedzia艂a Sheila, jak zobaczy艂a autobus z napisem Chicago. 鈥濲ad臋 i nigdy ju偶 tu nie wr贸c臋. Troch臋 jakbym umar艂a. Ale jad臋 tam, do Kalifornii鈥�. 鈥濺aczej dopiero zaczynasz 偶y膰, skoro tam jedziesz鈥� za艣mia艂 si臋 Slim, a Sheila powiedzia艂a, ze ma taka nadzieje.”
Jack Kerouac, Pic

Scott C. Holstad
“the words on the paper im readin are blarin out at me loud an angrylike tellin me there's no end to the recession theres no jobs theres no peace theres no hope man an people wonder why i do what i do? an bums are bummin lights from me and babies are squintin up at me an my coffee is rupturing my gut bitterlike an i guess the world is kinda like the coffee sometimes 鈥� ill be suffering thru both tomorrow.”
Scott C. Holstad

“I am a worthy cause," said Jack. "No. You are a bum," said the man.”
Janet Schulman, Jack the bum and the Halloween handout

Andy Griffiths
“He wondered if he'd be better off staying at the bum shelter with his false bum and forgetting about his real bum. But he couldn't. His bum was trying to take over the world.”
Griffiths, Andy
tags: bum, bums, humor

Andy Griffiths
“Stenchgator, the Great Unwiped Bum... was listed in the Bumper Book of Bums as the stinkiest bum in the world. Most bums only registered one or two points on the Rectum scale, but Stenchgator came in at a nose-bruising 9.8 points.”
Griffiths, Andy
tags: bum, bums, humor

Steven Magee
“Astronomers have their heads stuck up their bums looking for the black hole.”
Steven Magee

Jason Medina
“He always figured most homeless people to be mindless savages. Naturally, he usually kept that opinion to himself.”
Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

Ian Slatter
“In my school, if your skirt is just one centimetre too short, they make you change into the stinkiest, skankiest pair of lime green joggers they can find in the lost property box, with stains that you really don鈥檛 want to know
where they came from and the stench of a thousand backsides.”
Ian Slatter, Eco Worrier

Anthony T. Hincks
“It's bums on seats that spread the desire for tight fitting jeans.”
Anthony T. Hincks