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Monthly Archives: December 2003
Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
“no pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.”
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Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
“the cruel and the stupid were the same: there was nothing you could do to them; there were only things they could and would do to you.”
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Charles Bukowski, Notes of a Dirty Old Man
“you see these same beauty contest winners years later, grown old, in supermarkets; they are fussy, insane, bitter, demeaned - they put their stock in something unlasting, they were tricked; beware the sharp knives of their shopping carts - they are the madwomen of the Universe.”
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Charles Bukowski, Notes Of A Dirty Old Man
“as yet, I have seen nothing but this emotional and romantic yen for Revolution; I’ve seen no solid leader or no realistic platform to insure AGAINST the betrayal that has always, so far, followed.”
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D.T. Suzuki, Introduction to Zen Buddhism
“Personal experience, therefore, is everything in Zen. No ideas are intelligible to those who have no backing of experience.”
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John Updike, Rabbit, Run
“… as if the truth were a secret in such low solution that only immensity can give us a sensible taste.”
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