Charles Bukowski: Frasi in inglese (pagina 14)
Charles Bukowski era poeta e scrittore statunitense. Frasi in inglese.“writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all”
Origine: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell.”
Origine: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“Humanity, you never had it from the beginning." That was my motto.”
Origine: Women
Origine: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
"The Meaning of Life: The Big Picture", Life Magazine (December 1988)
Interviews
Contesto: 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.”
Origine: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman.”
Origine: Women (1978)
Origine: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“and even the trees we walked
under
seemed
less than
trees
and more like everything
else.”
Origine: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“Any damn fool can beg up some kind of job; it takes a wise man to make it without working.”
Origine: Post Office (1971)
“Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?”
Origine: Hollywood
Origine: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
Origine: Ham on Rye