Charles Bukowski: Cytaty po angielsku (strona 4)
Charles Bukowski był amerykański poeta i powieściopisarz. Cytaty po angielsku.“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely recover.”
Źródło: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
Wariant: There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock
Źródło: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Baby," I said. "I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.”
Źródło: Factotum (1975), Ch. 31
“What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability.”
Źródło: Ham on Rye
“Lighting new cigarettes,
pouring more
drinks.
It has been a beautiful
fight.
Still
is.”
Źródło: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“I want so much that is not here and do not know
where to go.”
Źródło: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
“I'm going, she said. I love you but you're
crazy, you're doomed.”
Źródło: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
Źródło: What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The fuckers. There, I feel better. God-damned human race. There, I feel better.”
Źródło: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Źródło: Factotum (1975), Ch. 73
Kontekst: 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.
“It was better for me when I could imagine greatness in others, even if it wasn't always there.”
Źródło: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Wariant: The best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them.
“Goodness can be found sometimes in the middle of hell.”
Źródło: Women