Charles Bukowski: Frases em inglês (página 11)

“It's a f*** you world. Well, keep it going anyhow, what the hell.”

“regret is mostly caused by not having
done anything.”

“we had such tremendous fun
and much agony together
for some years”

“Belane, are you nuts?"
Who knows? Insanity is comparative. Who sets the norm?”

“I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt”

“It’s so easy to be easy—if you let it.”

“Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.”

“be it peace or happiness
let it enfold you”

“I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, "crazy." But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there.”

“I don't like jail, they got the wrong kind of bars in there”

“I don't remember going to bed, but in the morning, there I was.”

“we know God is dead, they've told us, but listening to you I wasn't sure.”

“If you're going to try, go all the way. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind.”

“New Year's Eve always terrifies me.”

“News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens.”

“life itself is not the miracle.
that pain should be so constant,
that's the miracle”

“My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people.”

“Bad taste makes more millionaires than good taste.”

“I was only kidding about the hundred," she says.

oh," I say, "what will it cost me?"

she lights her cigarette with
my lighter and looks at me
through the flame:

her eyes tell me.

look," I say, "I don't think I
can ever pay that price again.”