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
“Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“the history of melancholia
includes all of us.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 56
Contexte: The bus ran along a very narrow strip of cement that stood up out of the water with no guard-rail, no nothing; that's all there was to it. The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty or fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did. Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There's deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgement he'll kill us all. It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? Anything. He could do it. Dump us all. I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn't a real man in the whole shitload.
“purple does something strange to me”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“stay with the beer.
beer is continuous blood.
a continuous lover.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
Variante: No, the less I see them the better i like them.
Source: Women