Favorite line from Buk?

[d gray]

probably my favorite rant ever of his - too many great lines to pick one.


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[j.temperance]

Love strokes the balls of your worst enemys

 

[duggixx]

"the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck".
Great Buck

 

[Chinanski5]

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 :(...

Put it here and ill do the translation, im from México and my english its pretty good.

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"I think that the miracle of our times is that so many people can write down so many words that mean absolutely nothing".

It comes from an article he wrote for some small magazine who honour him. You can find it on this place, i mean this internet site. Its from Upon the mathematics of the brath and the way.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

"the difference between a bad poet and a good one is luck".
Great Buck

No one has asked yet so I will: who is "Buck"? Buck Henry? Buck Jones? Try Buk (rhymes with puke, blah blah blah).

And a quote. Not so much a line as an aphorism. From a Sep. 7, 1979 letter to John Martin and definitely the way I've been feeling for years:

"There are still things to be handle; there will always be things to be handled. Nobody ever gets caught up and finished on what there is to do. And even if you do, for a moment, feel a central peace, there is always somebody walking behind you with a switchblade."

 

[reasonknot]

Read poem from manuscripts 1978 "hooked in H".I laughed out loud when he says,
"oh,they shit all right,I've seen them."
"but their shit is different"

 

[yojimbo]

I always loved this one, the whole clip, i think it's so true.
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[Lindo]

Beware the average man, the average woman
Beware their love, their love is average
Seeks average...

in "Run with the hunted"

 

[reasonknot]

''That's all there is it"

Good piece of film.

 

[Charles]

2nd paragraph of chapter 47, Ham on Rye:

Now, I thought, pushing my cart along, I have this job. Is this to be it? No wonder men robbed banks. There were too many demeaning jobs. Why the hell wasn't I a superior court judge or a concert pianist? Because it took training and cost money. But I didn't want to be anything anyhow. And I was certainly succeeding.

 

[Charles]

I always loved this one, the whole clip, i think it's so true.

spot on.

 

[paola k]

In Spanish: "Siempre habrá dinero y putas y borrachos" (there'll always be money and whores and drunkards)

 

[David]

Bukowski: "Nature is not normal. Nature is not kind. Nature doesn't give a fuck, and I give a fuck." I wonder where this is from--anybody know?

 

[Ponder]

The Bukowski Tapes?

 

[David]

Yes, I thought that might be a possibility. Maybe the one titled "Nature"? I seem to
remember he was speaking these lines, rather than reading it somewhere.

 

[Ponder]

No, I was wrong.

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[desertlizard]

many but i ve always liked this one
"Boring damned people. All over the earth. Propagating more boring damned people. What a horror show. The earth swarmed with them."

 

[whatsayjew]

'this land punched-in cuffed-out divided
held like a crucifix in a deathhand'

 

[Manuel Leroueil]

never get out of bed before noon

 

[esart]

..Somebody laid down this rule that everybody's gotta do something, they gotta be something. You know, a dentist, a glider pilot, a narc, a janitor, a preacher, all that. ...Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things that I don't wanna do. All the things that I don't wanna be. Places I don't wanna go, like India, like getting my teeth cleaned. Save the whale, all that, I don't understand that.

 

[Hugh Rodenski]

i'm not sure if someone posted this before me, i didn't check... but my favorite line from his is the last part of yes yes.

(talking about god)

"He made some mistakes
but when He created you lying in bed
He came all over His Blessed Universe."

gets me every time!

 

[gbsupbowl]

age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is

 

[Antn.migraine]

In Spanish: "Siempre habrá dinero y putas y borrachos"

"El amor es para la gente real."
"Me da igual lo que hagan conmigo cuando muera; pueden quemarme, pueden hacerme rebanadas, pueden dar mis pelotas a la ciencia, no me importa."

 

[HevyMinik]

"Not much chance, completely cut loose from purpose" from Nirvana

 

[Rekrab]

Going from memory here, and I don't know what book it's from, but one of Bukowski's female characters, a wife or girl friend, asks something like "Is my ass on straight?" I love that line. Anyone know the actual line?

 

[hank solo]

Here you go David - from 'Love is a dog from Hell' (and 'Scarlet') - red up and down

red hair
real
she whirled it
and she asked
"is my ass still on?"

such comedy.

there is always one woman
to save you from another

 

[Rekrab]

Thank you, hank solo! I guess I made up that "on straight" part. I need to reread those "Scarlet" poems. If I recall, there were several, all great stuff.

 

[LiL'redhairgirl]

"Love dries up. Even faster than sperm."
from The end of a short affair

;)
http://victorian.fortunecity.com/cloisters/90/bukowski/short_affair.html

 

[niceguy]

Someone once asked Bukowski: What is Fiction?
His reply: An improvement on life

 

[hillarymiddleton]

It could be a general quote, part of a book, stanza in a poem. My favorite is a quote is:

"Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside- remembering all the time you felt that way."

What's yours?