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Las op 15 april weer zo’n interessante column van Frits Abrahams over Charles Bukowski (op mijn 24^ste opeens vele boeken van hem gelezen en net zo opeens weer helemaal over).

 

Bukowski krijgt een baantje bij een kledingbedrijf. Hij moet er elke morgen voor naar Miami Beach in een bus die over een smalle wegstrook zonder vangrail langs het water rijdt:

 

'De buschauffeur leunde achterover en wij raasden over de smalle strook van cement, en alle mensen in de bus, 25 of soms 52 mensen vertrouwden hem, maar ik nooit. Aan beide kanten diep water en met 1 stommiteit vermoordt hij ons allemaal. Stel dat hij vanmorgen ruzie had met zijn vrouw ? Of kanker ? Of visioenen van god ? Slechte tanden en kiespijn ? Ik wist dat IK als ik reed de mogelijkheid of wenselijkheid zou overwegen om iedereen te verdrinken. En soms verandert een mogelijkheid in werkelijkheid. Tegenover elke jeanne d’arc zit een hitler. Maar geen enkele van deze buschauffeurs heeft ons ooit verzopen.'

 

Voor dinsdag 24 maart 2015, de dag waarop Andreas Lubitz zijn vliegtuig naar de hel stuurde leek het me kokketerie van een schrijver die wilde shockeren. Dit viel niet serieus te nemen. Nu denk ik daar anders over. Ik zie opeens het verband tussen deze macabere gedachte en de misantropie waarvan de boeken van Bukowski doordrenkt zijn. Het was geen toeval dat Celine zijn favoriete schrijver was. Deze passage bij Bukowski bewijst weer eens dat het onvoorstelbare niet bestaat; elke gedachte is eerder gedacht, elke daad eerder overwogen.

 

DAT IS DE VVD MENTALITIET ! THAT'S THE SPIRIT !

Een meisje dat keihard studeert ipv dat slappe langharige werkschuwe tuig van het maagdenhuis.

En dan daarna als arts in opleiding ook een 60-urige werkweek om verkeerde benen af te zetten of bij een ministerie VWS 60 urige werkweken maken en verblind door ambitie continu op schoot bij de minister willen zitten. Zo is maar 80% van de dames bij elk ministerie.

Toen ik 22 was en afgestudeerd in de rechten ("daar kom je ook wel weer overheen", zei een rustige aardige jongen meelevend), zei ik tegen mijn vader: "Ja, ik ben enorm ambitieus". Dat had ik mijn jongere broer horen zeggen en ik dacht laat ik hem maar napraten.
"Hoor je dat Lappie (labrador van mijn vader), hij is ambitieus, bijt hem maar flink in zijn billen!"

To have ambition was her ambition.

En wat worden mensen dom en maken ze stomme fouten als ze keihard werken en niet ontspannen en rustig zijn !

Werken, mormels, werken ! En nu vooruit, in search of excellence, het graf in.

Van die dingen, met vrindelijke groeten, dank voor die leuke columns! Cock Verschrijver!

 

Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

 

Some people never go crazy, What truly horrible lives they must live.

Charles Bukowski

 

The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.

Charles Bukowski

 

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

Charles Bukowski

 

The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.

Charles Bukowski

 

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

Charles Bukowski

 

It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.

Charles Bukowski

 

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

 

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

Charles Bukowski

 

The female loves to play man against man. And if she is in a position to do it, there is not one who will resist.

Charles Bukowski

 

There will always be something to ruin our lives, it all depends on what or which finds us first. We are always ripe and ready to be taken.

Charles Bukowski

 

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

Charles Bukowski

 

Never get out of bed before noon.

Charles Bukowski

 

To do a dull thing with style-now that's what I call art.

Charles Bukowski

 

If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.

Charles Bukowski

 

Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell.

Charles Bukowski

 

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

Charles Bukowski

 

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

Charles Bukowski

 

Humanity, you never had it to begin with.

Charles Bukowski

 

There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd. Of course, I expect this, but the knife still cuts.

Charles Bukowski

 

I would be married, but I'd have no wife, I would be married to a single life.

Charles Bukowski

Born: August 16, 1920

Died: March 9, 1994

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To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

 

To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.

Mark Twain

 

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Mark Twain

 

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

Mark Twain

 

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Mark Twain

 

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

Mark Twain

 

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.

Mark Twain

 

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

Mark Twain

 

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

Mark Twain

 

You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

Mark Twain

 

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Mark Twain

 

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

Mark Twain

 

In the first place, God made idiots. This was for practice. Then He made school boards.

Mark Twain

 

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Mark Twain

 

The lack of money is the root of all evil.

Mark Twain

 

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Mark Twain

 

Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

Mark Twain

 

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

Mark Twain

 

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

Mark Twain

 

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

Mark Twain

 

Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today.

Mark Twain

 

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Mark Twain

 

Golf is a good walk spoiled.

Mark Twain

 

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

Mark Twain

 

Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: November 30, 1835

Died: April 21, 1910