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Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse
Charles Bukowski
Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire
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Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
Charles Bukowski Citations
Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire, 1967, Quartier des agités à l'est d'Hollywood
Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire, 1967, La grande défonce
“La Constitution n'a jamais été conçue pour protéger les dégénérés.”
Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
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Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
Women, 1978
Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire, 1967, Notes sur la peste
“j'aime mieux qu'on me raconte la vie d'un clochard américain que celle d'un dieu grec mort.”
Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
Journal d'un vieux dégueulasse, 1969
Nouveaux contes de la folie ordinaire, 1967, La grande défonce
Charles Bukowski: Citations en anglais

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Variante: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

Variante: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”
Variante: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Source: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Contexte: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.
“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
Variante: You have to die a few times before you actually live.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
Variante: being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Source: Women
“I guess the only time most people think about injustice is when it happens to them.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“I'm tired of waiting to die. Let's go out.”
Source: Hot Water Music
“people run from rain but
sit
in bathtubs full of
water.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“one can never be sure whether it's good poetry or bad acid”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're
just as crazy as the rest of them.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors have taken over the Ship (1998)