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
“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”
Source: Hollywood
Variante: I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
Source: More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“There's nothing unusual about love.”
Variante: sometimes there's nothing to say
about
death.
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”
Source: Factotum
“Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.”
Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: The Most Beautiful Woman in Town & Other Stories