Charles Bukowski: Frases en inglés (página 22)

“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”

“Meanwhile the 3 a. m. drunks of the world would lay in their beds, trying in vain to sleep, and deserving that rest, if they could find it.”

“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”

“and if I have any advice to give to anybody it’s this: take up watercolor painting.”

“I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair.”

“The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy.”

“but as God said,
crossing his legs,
I see where I have made plenty of poets
but not so very much
poetry.”

“we must bring
our own light
to the
darkness.”

“I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can’t feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often.”

“God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last.”

“I am sick with caring.”

“Those who preach god, need god
Those who preach peace do not have peace
Those who preach love do not have love”

“Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness….”

“There's nothing unusual about love.”

“A woman is a full time job. You have to choose your profession.”

“Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery.”

“Are there good governments and bad governments? No, there are only bad governments and worse governments.”

“There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out, but I'm too tough for him.”

“all that I know is that I believe in
the sound of music and the
running of a horse. all else is
squabble.”