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“Life is hard - if you think it's hard.”
― Tom Robbins

“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.”
― William Blake, Jerusalem: The Emanation of the Giant Albion

“Conventions are stupid things; but even the children of the spirit must make some compromise with the world.”
― Aldous Huxley

“Everything is all right, and everybody has to do exactly what he does. I learned that on Tralfamadore.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“Now fix the drink and then tell me what happened.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“I wonder if it's ok being a second-rate painter.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

“Hey, Bubu, a bottle of good French wine...Sip it slowly, do you most good. You'll sleep. Be happy. And if you want to come downstairs, dance and sing, talk, ok. Do what you want. Here's the wine.”
― Charles Bukowski

“Amalfitano remembered a time when he believed that nothing happened by chance, everything happened for some reason, but when was that time? he couldn't remember, all he could remember was that at some point thiw was what he believed...”
― Roberto Bolaño, Woes of the True Policeman

“And I no longer ask for all the solitude in the world, but for time.”
― Roberto Bolaño, Antwerp