Charles Bukowski: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 16)

“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”

“It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a. m.”

“You can’t beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.”

“take a writer away from his typewriter
and all you have left
is
the sickness
which started him
typing
in the
beginning”

“escape from the black widow spider
is a miracle as great as art.
what a web she can weave
slowly drawing you to her
she'll embrace you
then when she's satisfied
she'll kill you
still in her embrace
and suck the blood from you.”

“Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any.”

“Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.”

“I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future.”

“there was something about
that city, though
it didn't let me feel guilty
that I had no feeling for the
things so many others
needed.
it let me alone.”

“lay down. lay down like an animal and wait.”

“When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat.”

“You gotta find what you like and let it kill you.”

“like the fox
I run with the hunted
and if I’m not
the happiest man
on earth
I’m surely the
luckiest man
alive.”

“If you want to create, you'll create…”

“There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets… when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.”

“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”

“t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.”

“it does seem
the more we drink
the better the words
go.”

“I am a series of small victories and large defeats.”