Charles Bukowski citations célèbres
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
“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a. m.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31
Contexte: I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.
“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”
Variante: Find what you love and let it kill you.
Source: The Night Torn Mad With Footsteps
“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I am a series of small victories and large defeats.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“There is no hurry. Time means nothing
to you.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”
Source: Hollywood
“I was only photographing in words the reality of it all.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“It is possible to be truly mad and to still exist upon scraps of life.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer.”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems