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1 " I am too sick to lay downthe sidewalks frighten methe whole damned city frightens me,what I will becomewhat I have becomefrightens me. "
― Charles Bukowski , Mockingbird Wish Me Luck
2 " you shoulda known the entirety of the trap, a**hole,love means eventual painvictory means eventual defeatgrace means eventual slovenliness,there's no wayout...you see, youunderstand? "
3 " and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it "
4 " there seems to be no way out, I thought, everybody is always angry about the truth even though they claim to believe in it. "
5 " I walk out of the dark and into the dark and sit down and wait. "
6 " if the rest of the world could see you today their laughter would bring the sun to its knees and even the flowers would leap from the ground like bulldogs and chase you away to where you belong wherever that is, and who cares where it is as long as it’s somewhere away from here. "
7 " Don’t talk to me or bother me and I won’t bother you. All right? "
8 " death arrived on schedule on a Sunday afternoon, and, as always, it was easier than we thought it would be. "
9 " the libraries are filled with thousands of books of knowledge,great music sits inside the nearby radio and I am sleepy in the afternoon,I have this tomb within myself that says,ah, let the others do it, let them win,let me sleep,wisdom is in the dark "
10 " greater men than I have failed to agree with Life. "
11 " love means eventual pain victory means eventual defeat "
12 " driving through the park I notice men and women playing golf driving in their powered carts over billiard table lawns, they are my age but their bodies are fat their hair grey their faces waffle batter, and I remember being startled by my own face scarred, and mean as red ants looking at me from a department store mirror and the eyes mad mad mad I drive on and start singing making up the sound a war chant and there is the sun and the sun says, good, I know you, and the steering wheel is humorous and the dashboard laughs, see, the whole sky knows I have not lied to anything even death will have exits like a dark theatre. I stop at a stop sign and as fire burns the trees and the people and the city I know that there will be a place to go and a way to go and nothing need ever be lost. "
13 " the world is full of shipping clerks who have read the Harvard Classics "