Charles Bukowski: Frases en inglés

Charles Bukowski era escritor y poeta estadounidense. Frases en inglés.
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“when you're young
a pair of
female
high-heeled shoes
just sitting
alone
in the closet
can fire your
bones;
when you're old
it's just
a pair of shoes
without
anybody
in them
and
just as
well.”

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Charles Bukowski

Fuente: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

“I was fairly poor
but most of my money went
for wine and
classical music.
I loved to mix the two
together.”

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Charles Bukowski

Fuente: The Last Night of the Earth Poems

“As we live we all get caught and torn by various traps. Nobody escapes them. Some even live with them. The idea is to realize that a trap is a trap. If you are in one and you don't realize it, then you're finished.”

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Charles Bukowski

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

“I'll use the knives for spreading
jam, and the gas to warm
my greying love.”

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Charles Bukowski

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

“It’s not so much that nothing means
anything but more that it keeps meaning
nothing.
there’s no release, just gurus and self-
appointed gods and hucksters.
the more people say, the less there is to say.
even the best books are dry sawdust.”

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Charles Bukowski libro The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Fuente: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“How are his poems?"
"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way.”

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Charles Bukowski libro Hollywood

Fuente: Hollywood

“First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L. A. Public Library.”

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Charles Bukowski libro La senda del perdedor

Fuente: Ham on Rye

“theres no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
nobody ever finds
the one.”

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Charles Bukowski libro Love Is a Dog from Hell

Variante: there's no chance
at all:
we are all trapped
by a singular
fate.
Fuente: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“my hands dead
my heart dead
silence
adagio of rocks
the world ablaze
that's the best
for me.”

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Charles Bukowski libro Love Is a Dog from Hell

Fuente: Love Is a Dog from Hell

“You were destroyed by what you befriended.”

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Charles Bukowski libro Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

Fuente: Betting on the Muse: Poems and Stories

“all people start to
come apart finally
and there it is:
just empty ashtrays in a room
or wisps of hair on a comb
in the dissolving moonlight.”

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Charles Bukowski

“there are policemen in the street
and angels in the clouds”

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Charles Bukowski libro The People Look Like Flowers at Last

Fuente: The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I know what a park bench is and the landlord's knock. There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little.”

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Charles Bukowski

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

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

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Charles Bukowski

“i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer”

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Charles Bukowski

“it was going to be all right.
at last.
for a while.”

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Charles Bukowski libro Notes of a Dirty Old Man

Fuente: Notes of a Dirty Old Man