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
en
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
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“If you’re going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don’t even start.”
Source: Hot Water Music
Variante: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Source: Portions from a Wine-Stained Notebook: Uncollected Stories and Essays, 1944-1990
Variante: the courage it took to get out of bed each
morning
to face the same things
over and over
was
enormous.
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
“how can you be true and
kind at the same
time?
how?”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
Source: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit
“Dying in a a war never stopped wars from happening.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“I'm only interested in poetry.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“Beautiful thoughts, and beautiful women never last.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”
Source: Ham on Rye
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Was I the only person who was distracted by this future without a chance?”
Source: Ham on Rye
“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”
Source: Ham on Rye
Variante: She was desperate and she was choosey
at the same time and, in a way, beautiful, but she didn't have quite enough going for her to become what
she imagined herself to be.
Source: Factotum
“The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“from the beginning, through the
middle years and up to the
end:
too bad, too bad, too bad.”
Source: Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way
“I was a bore and didn't know when to smile or fake it. Or rather worse, I did but didn't.”
Source: At Terror Street And Agony Way
Source: You Get So Alone At Times That It Just Makes Sense
“most days go
nowhere
but the avoidance
of pain and
dissolution are
lovely.”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories