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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 célèbres

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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

“I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”

in Bukowski: Born Into This (2002)
Variante: I've never met another man I'd rather be.

“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”

Charles Bukowski livre Love Is a Dog from Hell

Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It's like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.”

Charles Bukowski livre Women

Variante: Love is all right for those who can handle the psychic overload. It’s like trying to carry a full garbage can on your back over a rushing river of piss.
Source: Women

“each man's hell is in a different place:
mine is just up and behind
my ruined face.”

Variante: each man's hell is in a different
place: mine is just up and
behind
my ruined
face.
--from Let's Make a Deal
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“the tigers have found me
and I do not care.”

Variante: what you were
will not happen again.
the tigers have found me
and I do not care.

“Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love”

Charles Bukowski livre Post Office

Post Office (1971)
Contexte: Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love.

“But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything.”

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.

“Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement.”

Charles Bukowski livre Post Office

Post Office (1971)
Contexte: I squeezed Fay’s hand, kissed her on the forehead. She closed her eyes and seemed to sleep then. She was not a young woman. Maybe she hadn’t saved the world but she had made a major improvement. Ring one up for Fay.

“so it's always a process of letting go, one way or another”

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

“to fight for each minute is to
fight for what is possible within
yourself,
so that your life and your death
will not be like
theirs.”

Charles Bukowski livre The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

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