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
“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”
Source: Ham on Rye
“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”
Source: Hollywood
“To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.”
Variante: It's better to do a dull thing with style than a dangerous thing without it.
“people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“sometimes I hate you,"
she said.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Women (1978)
Contexte: I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn't fit the other. I didn't care.
“having nothing to struggle
against
they have nothing to struggle
for.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories