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
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“a good book
can make an almost
impossible
existence,
liveable
( from 'the luck of the word' )”
Source: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories
“Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses.”
Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
“eleven months.
now she's gone
gone as they go.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.”
Source: Women
Ham On Rye (1982)
Source: Ham on Rye
Contexte: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves. I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn't understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go.
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret.”
Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness
“mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
Source: Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
“I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.”
Source: South of No North
“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.”
Source: Women
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
Contexte: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
“The wisdom to quit is all we have left.”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”
Source: Women (1978)
