Favorite line from Buk?

[rageforst]

favorite line... well i thing that depends of your mood, but there are so much lines about love behavior, about life, about lush times... but the line in The Captain is Out to Lunch...

"Why are there so few interesting people? Out of the
millions, why aren't there a few? Must we continue to live
with this drab and ponderous species? Seems their only act is
Violence. They are so good at that. They truly blossom. Shit
flowers, stinking up our chance. Problem is, if I want the
lights to go on, if I want this computer repaired, if I want
to flush the toilet, buy a new tire, get a tooth pulled or my
gut cut open, I must continue to interact. I need the fuckers
for the minute necessities, even if they, themselves appall
me. And appall is a kind word"

 

[Shiru]

"Style is the Answer to everything"

 

[Billville]

I always liked this "Where do they go" line in factotum.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Even purple stickpin has an asshole!!!

 

[roni]

even purple stickpin has an asshole!!!

:-))



.

 

[Bukfan]

Even purple stickpin has an asshole!!!

That's just hearsay...

 

[Mather]

"I have seen the red rose burning
and this means more."

 

[Nihil]

Fuck... my favourite Buk's line is in the translated version to spanish I and just wouldn't dare to do the translation and risk the poetic meaning, sniff :(...

 

[yossari]

From the barfly film, it goes something like:

woman "there's angels all around"
Chinaski "you really believe in that shit?"
"sure why not, the more shit you believe the more better off you are."

then he kind of stumbles around and says,

"oh it's time those fuckers came out of hiding"

I think it may be about LA. I was planning on making a banjo radio jingle of it, filming it, playing it back on a tv on the back of a stripper dressed in angel wings, taping that and entering it for some avant garde art exhibition.

 

[hank solo]

I was planning on making a banjo radio jingle of it, filming it, playing it back on a tv on the back of a stripper dressed in angel wings, taping that and entering it for some avant garde art exhibition.

Do it.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Yossari, now you're talking. Do it, is right. It has to be a good looking stripper, no blemishes.

 

[yossari]

I've never seen a stripper without blemishes, and I don't think I know any banjo players but I could give it a try.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I (barely) remember a drunken Saturday afternoon on the Berlin Turpike in Connecticut back in about 1987 or '88; crusin' the strip clubs and generally being idiots (go figure). We got to this one place that had a chick with a welt on her thigh the size (and shape) of, well, an iron.

Turns out she got into a fight with her boyfriend and he seared her thigh with the freaking iron. How hot is that? (OK, not at all - the image, not the iron.) But a girl's gotta make a buck right?

 

[Gerard K H Love]

So the scar was pointing to her money maker? Now that's a line from Bukowski.

 

[plusljud]

"horses don't bet on people and neither do I"

it's probably not from any poem but it's still the best fucking words I've ever read.

 

[pigmantoo]

"Most men who sleep late in the morning are a superior breed"

 

[Bukfan]

"Well, all we gotta do is die. And after living, that's a break."

- On becoming a writer:

"It's a shot in the dark.
You take it, or you become a normal, civilized person from 8 to 5.
Get married. Have children. Christmas together.
Here comes Grandma...
"Hi Grandma, come on in. How are you?"
Shit, I couldn't take that.
I'd rather murder myself."

 

[bakeowski]

WOW-thanks pessimist!

"Words weren't dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the m
"The life of the sane, average man was dull, worse than death. There seemed to be no
possible alternative. Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals."

my fave words of his are whatever im reading now
because if im reading buke my mind purrs
and as my mind purrs the rest of the cat turns its ass to the world
tail up

 

[Dogs1994]

best bukowski poem/line/quote ever?

hey ,
i was just thinking of everyone's favourite bukowski quote/line he ever written in a poem.
i think one could definitely be "the tigers have found me, and i dont care"
but of course "...live our lives so well that Death would tremble to take us'
..:D

 

[Bill Sikes]

Too many...also they could apply for different situations in life. But my favorite, favorite short-story for the last 20+ years is Kid Stardust on the Porterhouse - the quotes about "American schoolyard" are so (expletive) true.

 

[lewis hc]

I've just tonight been considering Buk's 'the gods wait to delight in you' (I forget which poem it's from, but what a line, or lines)..

ah,so, 'the gods wait to delight in you' is from 'the laughing heart'..it's my favourite Buk. quote, it came to mind before I came online, which is a coincidence I s'pose, but what a line..

 

[zenguru]

This is probably not his best ever, but I always liked "never write a poem unless it arrives on its own."

 

[Dogs1994]

what do you think bukowskis best line was?

i think he had so many!

but i love:
"what was wrong was never understood, and what was right never lasted"
"There's nothing left to die"
"you get so alone at times that it just makes sense"
"I have seen the red rose burning
and this means more."

these lines really stood out to me...though there's many many more.

how about you guys?
:p

 

[dijhony]

"Nature is not normal. Nature is not kind. Nature doesn't give a fuck man, and I give a fuck."

 

[Kanex]

"the nest of the Arts like the nests of the Revolutionaries crawl with the most unimaginable lice-covered freaks, seeking coca-cola solace because they can neither find jobs as dishwashers or paint like Cezanne." (Notes..., p.84).

 

[nervas]

I thought I had posted in this thread before, but maybe not...

Soooo many, but I think Lick The Star's signature may be my fave!

what was wrong was never
understood
and what was right never
lasted
Buk
12-3-75

 

[esart]

from the crunch:

"the beads will swing
the clouds will cloud
and the killer will behead the child
like taking a bite out of an ice cream cone."

from barfly:

"endurance is more important than truth."

 

[number6horse]

"...she is dark, she is dark
she is reading about God.

I am God."


On behalf of former church-goers and recovering Catholics everywhere, can I just say thanks.

 

[Ambreen]

I was looking for some phone numbers in my former diary when I came to leaf through the pages on which I wrote some Bukowski quotes. Among them, there was a line on Buk posted here by a guy (a certain Caraculo) whom I guess was a kind of troll, and which I noted because, however grotesque it was, I found it funny as hell:

"I am not sure if Bukowski was a racist, but Mickey Mouse is black... it's very telling he didn't have anything against Donald Duck."

 

[number6horse]

Wow - a great example of how far trolls are willing to go in order to start arguments.

And reminiscent of The Dissident.