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
“Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot.”
Source: Notes of a Dirty Man (Zápisky starého prasáka)
“My ambition is handicapped by my laziness.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 45, Manny
“I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color of forgotten love.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“she was consumed by 3 simple things:
drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more:
youth and beauty”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”
Source: Post Office
Variante: Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they’ll spit on you.
Source: Women (1978)
“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”
Source: South of No North
“It all comes down to the last person you think of at night, that's where the heart is.”
Original: Tutto si riduce all'ultima persona a cui pensi la notte, è lì che si trova il cuore.
Source: In Una sorcia bianca – nella raccolta Storie di ordinaria follia
Variante: I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing."
Source: Post Office (1971)
Variante: Some lose all mind and become soul, insane. Some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual. Some lose both and become accepted.