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read in July, 2010
John said:
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Bukowski. Here's a poem.I don’t know how many bottles of beer
I have consumed while waiting for things
to get better
I don’t know how much wine and whisky
and beer
mostly beer
I have consumed after
splits with women—
waiting for the phone to ring
wai ...more "
People will say I’m being too complimentary and that there’s no way they’re this good, but I genuinely believe that if the people of Norwich were Cheddar, they’d be Tesco Finest Cheddar. Full-flavoured and matured for four weeks, the keenly
...more
“For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.”
― The Real Frank Zappa Book
― The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
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“Real love amounts to withholding the truth, even when you're offered the perfect opportunity to hurt someone's feelings”
― Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
― Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
“It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.”
― Love Is a Mix Tape
― Love Is a Mix Tape
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I started with 'Got To Get You Off My Mind', but then realised that she might not get any further than track one, side one if I delivered what she wanted straight away, so I buried it in the middle of side two), and then you've got to up it a notch, and you can't have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can't have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you've done the whole thing in pairs, and ... oh there are loads of rules.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity
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