One is still alive, the other unfortunately has already died. One was Czech and the other, although born in Germany, considered himself an American. The literature of one has nothing to do with the writings of the other, but they do have something in common besides that they are very important writers in world literature, and they are their good phrases that they left the world (one of them keeps leaving them).
We are going to see today a Charles Bukowski vs. Milan Kundera in terms of phrases, quotes and brief fragments that they left written or said. You stay?
- "Nostalgia for paradise is man's desire not to be a man." (Milan Kudera).
- “Once a woman turns her back on you, forget it: they love you and suddenly something turns around. They can see you dying in a gutter, hit by a car and they will pass you spitting. " (Charles Bukowski).
- "Love, by definition, is an undeserved gift." (Milan Kudera).
- "Of course it is possible to love a human being if you don't know him well." (Charles Bukowski).
- "Love does not manifest itself in the desire to sleep with someone, but in the desire to sleep with someone." (Milan Kudera).
- "Love? Come on, people don't want love; people want to succeed, and one of the things they can do is in love. " (Charles Bukowski)
- «Women do not look for beautiful men. Women are looking for men who have had beautiful women. Therefore, having an ugly lover is a fatal mistake. " (Milan Kudera).
- “While the men watched football or drank beer or bowled, they, the women, thought of us, concentrating, studying, deciding whether to accept us, discard us, change us, kill us or simply abandon us. In the end it didn't matter, whatever they did, we ended up crazy and alone. " (Charles Bukowski).
- «The heaviest load tears us apart, we are knocked down by it, it crushes us to the earth. But in love poetry of all ages, women want to carry the weight of the man's body. The heaviest burden is therefore, at the same time, the image of the most intense fullness of life. The heavier the load, the closer to the ground our life will be, the more real and true it will be. " (Milan Kudera).
- "There are times when a man has to fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it." (Charles Bukowski).
- "I write for the pleasure of contradicting and for the happiness of being alone against everyone." (Milan Kudera).
- «An intellectual is one who says a simple thing in a complicated way. An artist is one who says a complicated thing in a simple way. " (Charles Bukowski).
As you can see both writers but so different from each other ... Have you read anything about them? Do you like them as writers?