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Henry Charles Bukowski /ˈhɛnɹi t͡ʃɑɹlz bəˈkaʊski/, né Heinrich Karl Bukowski /ˈhaɪnʁɪç kaːɐ̯l buˈkɔfskʲi/ le 16 août 1920 à Andernach en Allemagne et mort le 9 mars 1994 à Los Angeles aux États-Unis, est un écrivain américain d'origine allemande, auteur de romans, de nouvelles et de poésie. Il est connu sous ses pseudonymes divers : Hank, Buk, Henry Chinaski, ce dernier étant celui de son alter ego dans ses nombreux romans autobiographiques. Il est l'auteur, en prose comme en vers, d'une œuvre poétique considérable. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. août 1920 – 9. mars 1994   •   Autres noms Henry Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski Citations

“Tout allait de travers. Les gens s’accrochaient aveuglément à la première bouée de sauvetage venue : le communisme, la diététique, le zen, le surf, la danse classique, l’hypnotisme, la dynamique de groupe, les orgies, le vélo, l’herbe, le catholicisme, les haltères, les voyages, le retrait intérieur, la cuisine végétarienne, l’Inde, la peinture, l’écriture, la sculpture, la musique, la profession de chef d’orchestre, les balades sac à dos, le yoga, la copulation, le jeu, l’alcool, zoner, les yaourts surgelés, Beethoven, Bach, Bouddha, le Christ, le H, le jus de carotte, le suicide, les costumes sur mesure, les voyages en avion, New York City, et soudain, tout se cassait la gueule, tout partait en fumée. Il fallait bien que les gens trouvent quelque chose à faire en attendant de mourir. Pour ma part, je trouvais plutôt sympa qu’on ait le choix.”

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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

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Charles Bukowski: Citations en anglais

“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”

Charles Bukowski livre The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.”

Charles Bukowski livre Love Is a Dog from Hell

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.”

Charles Bukowski livre Factotum

Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31

“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.”

Charles Bukowski livre Love Is a Dog from Hell

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

“Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer.”

Charles Bukowski livre Factotum

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

“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”

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.

“one more creature
dizzy with love”

Charles Bukowski livre Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Never trust a man in a jumpsuit”

Charles Bukowski livre Hot Water Music

Source: Hot Water Music

“and love was lightning and remembrance”

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“Angels,
we have grown apart.”

Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

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