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
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Variante: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
Source: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 73
Contexte: There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i. e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Variante: The best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them.
“animals never worry about Heaven or Hell. neither do I. maybe that's why we get along”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“one more creature
dizzy with love”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“and love was lightning and remembrance”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense