November 2011
99 posts
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“we have come
so far
and gone
nowhere. we have lived
so long
and
hardly
at...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
October 2011
98 posts
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“If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night
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“there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Making poetry should be as natural as making water.”
– Tom Stoppard, Travesties
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“Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think as much...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.”
– Oscar Wilde
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Happy birthday to the friend who got me on tumblr! →
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“That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when...”
– Kurt Vonnegut
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“and I run child-like
with God’s anger a step behind,
back to simple...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“We have to earn silence, then, to work for it: to make it not an absence but a...”
– Pico Iyer, The Eloquent Sounds of Silence
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start, and you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“the curious feeling
swam through him
that everything
was
beautiful
there,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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Studied for 17 hours today.
I hate business school.
On the bright side, when this week is finally over, I get to finish The Trial. Beautiful boy will be happy.
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“little dark girl with kind eyes
you have no
knife. the knife is
mine and I...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it is lazy. A man is not very...”
– N.H Kleinbaum, Dead Poet’s Society
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“I’ll die, my friends, I have no doubt of
that
but I think that the...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be...”
– Edgar Allan Poe
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“All my life I’ve looked at words as though I was seeing them for the first...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“and then she would smile
to show me how,
and it was the
saddest smile
I ever...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch...”
– N. H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poet’s Society
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For Jane
225 days under grass and you know more than I. they have long taken your blood, you are a dry stick in a basket. is this how it works? in this room the hours of love still make shadows. when you left you took almost everything. I kneel in the nights before tigers that will not let me be. what you were will not happen again. the tigers have found me and I do not care.
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“nobody can save you but
yourself
and you’re worth saving.
it’s a...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I liked
being young and mean.
the world didn’t make
any sense
to me.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“you
wanted to explode out of
what was holding you:
rotten memories of a...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet ones’ whole life is...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit
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“the curious feeling
swam through him
that everything
was
beautiful
there,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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“The best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English...”
– Stephen King
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“I keep typing these
drunk poems, sitting in this chair
smoking too many...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can’t beat...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“There’s no chance
at all:
we are all
trapped
by a singular fate....”
– Charles Bukowski
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“There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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“Our education system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
It...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky 