Charles Bukowski: Frasi in inglese

Charles Bukowski era poeta e scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.

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“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

Variante: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.”

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Charles Bukowski

Variante: The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence.

“there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled

a space

and even during the
best moments
and
the greatest times
times

we will know it

we will know it
more than
ever

there is a place in the heart that
will never be filled
and

we will wait
and
wait

in that space.”

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Charles Bukowski

“Do you hate people?”

“I don't hate them… I just feel better when they're not around.”

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Origine: Barfly

“She's mad, but she's magic. There's no lie in her fire.”

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Variante: she’s mad, but she’s magic.

“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.”

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"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
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“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.”

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“We don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.”

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Variante: We don't even ask for happiness, just a little less pain.
Origine: From a letter to William Packard from 1985 (published in Reach for the Sun - the 3rd volume of Bukowski correspondence)
Contesto: Sex, love, duty, God, family are not to be bargained with against happiness, and we don’t even ask happiness, just a little less pain.

“People empty me. I have to get away to refill.”

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“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”

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Charles Bukowski libro The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Variante: You have to die a few times before you actually live.
Origine: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?”

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Charles Bukowski libro Factotum

Origine: Factotum

“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”