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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Do you hate people?”

    “I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Barfly
    tags: humour, misanthropy, paraphrased
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    Charles Bukowski
    “There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out
    but I'm too tough for him,
    I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Of course it's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “dogs and angels are not
    very far apart”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I never met another man I'd rather be. And even if that's a delusion, it's a lucky one.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: bukowski
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
    ― Terry Pratchett
    tags: humor, life
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    Terry Pratchett
    “Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky
    tags: full, hat, pratchett, sky, terry
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    Jack Kerouac
    “It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.”
    ― Jack Kerouac, Big Sur
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    Jack Kerouac
    “Something good will come of all things yet”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    Jack Kerouac
    “If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: indifference
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    Jack Kerouac
    “They build their own Hells.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
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    William S. Burroughs
    “A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on. A psychotic is a guy who's just found out what's going on.”
    ― William S. Burroughs
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    William S. Burroughs
    “Knowing you might not make it... in that knowledge courage is born.”
    ― William S. Burroughs, The Western Lands
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: intelligence
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
    tags: forgiveness, honor, men, women
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: attitude, fire, hope, inspirational, persistence
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “How does a man decide in what order to abandon his life?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Where men can't live gods fare no better.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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  • #23
    Cormac McCarthy
    “But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Suttree
    tags: tragic
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: ashes, beauty, cherishing, grace, grief, hurt, pain
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
    tags: journey, travel
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing. ”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “Suppose you were the last one left? Suppose you did that to yourself?”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, The Road
    tags: altruism, cormac-mccarthy, morality, selfishness, survival, the-road
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments.”
    ― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
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    Cormac McCarthy
    “If people knew the story of their lives, how many would then elect to live them? ”
    ― Cormac McCarthy
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  • #30
    W.B. Yeats
    “Come away, O human child!
    To the waters and the wild
    With a faery, hand in hand,
    For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
    ― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
    tags: children, fairies, fantasy, loss-of-innocence, poetry, sorrow
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