Charles Bukowski: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 3)

“Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?”

“Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.”

“If there are junk yards in hell, love is the dog that guards the gates.”

“I think I need a drink.'
'Almost everybody does only they don't know it.”

“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”

“and love is a word used
too much and
much
too soon.”

“Don’t do it. Don’t love me.”

“we only asked for leopards to guard
our thinning dreams.”

“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”

“Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.”

“I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and only a minor love.”

“I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being.”

“Do some living and get yourself a typewriter.”

“Her eyes always had a frantic, lost look. He could never cure her eyes of that.”

“Money is like sex,' I said. 'It seems much more important when you don't have any…'

'You talk like a writer,' said Francois.”

“It all comes down to the last person you think of at night, that's where the heart is.”

“Some people like what you do, some people hate what you do, but most people simply don't give a damn.”

“They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.”

“Some lose all mind and become soul, insane.
some lose all soul and become mind, intellectual.
some lose both and become accepted”