Чарльз Буковски: Цитаты на английском языке (страница 9)

Чарльз Буковски было Американский писатель. Цитаты на английском языке.
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“Beware
Those Who
Are ALWAYS
READING
BOOKS”

Источник: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966

“For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil.”

Charles Bukowski книга Factotum

Источник: Factotum (1975), Ch. 56
Контексте: The bus ran along a very narrow strip of cement that stood up out of the water with no guard-rail, no nothing; that's all there was to it. The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty or fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did. Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There's deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgement he'll kill us all. It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? Anything. He could do it. Dump us all. I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn't a real man in the whole shitload.

“purple does something strange to me”

Charles Bukowski книга The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Источник: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“when the phone rings
I too would like to hear words
that might ease
some of this.”

Charles Bukowski книга Love Is a Dog from Hell

Источник: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.”

Charles Bukowski книга Love Is a Dog from Hell

Источник: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“love be damned now
as love was damned when it
first arrived.”

Charles Bukowski книга The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Источник: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide.
I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide.”

Источник: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

“The less I needed, the better I felt.”

Charles Bukowski книга Women

Вариант: No, the less I see them the better i like them.
Источник: Women

“It began as a mistake.”

Charles Bukowski книга Post Office

Post Office (1971)