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“It’s like when we were little, and we would go to the grocery store. My sister and brother would fight about things that my sister and brother would fight about, and I would sit at the bottom of the shopping cart. And my mom would be so upset by the end of shopping that she would push the cart fast, and I would feel like I was in a submarine.”

“I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs.” analyzing this sentence, it is fascinating the structure of the sentence.

“Maybe these are my glory days, and I’m not even realizing it because they don’t involve a ball.”

Excerpt From
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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“I personally find “super models” strange. I don’t know why this is.”

Excerpt From
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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Craig for me draws parallels to John in lost in translation.

“Sam and I got up to the kitchen, and she turned on the light. Wow! It was so bright, I couldn’t believe it. It was like when you see a movie in the theater during the day, and when you leave the movie, you can’t believe that it’s still daylight outside.”

Excerpt From
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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There’s one passage I just read that’s funny then in a split second got really dark*

There’s one passage I just read that’s funny then dark and heavy at the same time

“My parents went to Ohio to see a very distant cousin get buried or married. I don’t remember which. And they left my brother in charge of the house. He was sixteen at the time. My brother used the opportunity to throw a big party with beer and everything. I was ordered to stay in my room, which was okay because that’s where everyone kept their coats, and it was fun looking through the stuff in their pockets.”

so, I like this book more than looking for alaska because, well, they're both coming of age, but there are differences for sure, the narrative structure, that might be more trivial, there's also the writing style, then the main character, sure Miles could also be seen as a bit of a wallflower?, but here it's more apparent, focalised? pronounced?

oh my god, the foreshadowing with peter pan.

“I usually walk home from school because it makes me feel like I’ve earned it. What I mean is that I want to be able to tell my kids that I walked to school like my grandparents did in the “old days.”

Excerpt From
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Stephen Chbosky
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“Do you always think this much, Charlie?”“Is that bad?” I just wanted someone to tell me the truth.“Not necessarily. It’s just that sometimes people use thought to not participate in life.”“Is that bad?”
“Yes.”

Only 37 pages in and I think it’s already one of the best books I’ve read in my life.

“I just keep drinking the wine and
       smoking, and there’s nothing more magic or gentle than this, that’s
       why I tend to talk about it, I want to keep the luck going . . .”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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“Perhaps, some day, somebody will explain to me why so much of the energy of the Miracle is contained in classical music? I doubt that this will ever be told to me. I will only be left to wonder. Why, why, why aren’t there more books with this power? What’s wrong with the writers? Why are there so few good ones?”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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and it didn't even break is good

the replacements is really good

“it’s all been so beastly
       lovely,
       this mad river,
       this gouging
       plundering
       madness
       that I would wish upon
       nobody
       but myself,
       amen.”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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“Question: If you do drink or use other drugs, is it at least partly to rid yourself of inhibitions and self-consciousness? Does it help to overcome the fear of exposing yourself? Do you think that there is a point of diminishing returns?
Bukowski: Only a jealous non-drinker would ask a question like that.”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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“Question: Truman Capote said that once he began writing, “in fearful earnest, my mind zoomed all night every night, and I don’t think I really slept for several years. Not until I discovered that whisky could relax me.” Have you used drugs or alcohol to escape the grip of obsessive writing, or to relax from the effects of creation?
Bukowski: When I read Capote I need a drink to get that thin crap out of my mind.”

“It whirls the winds behind the gods. Besides, I drink when I don’t write but, in a sense, I think I am writing then. The mind spreads to gather new surfaces, small imprints.
”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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Bukowski: Writers are mostly dissatisfied with life as life and with people as people, etc. Writing is an attempt to explain, escape and change the outrageous forces which make us more than unhappy. Drinking is a chemistry which also rearranges our horizons for us. It gives us two ways to live instead of one.”

“I am sick with writing. It is my drug. It is my woman, my wine, my god. My luck.”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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“when I look at a bottle of
       beer it looks like bottled sunlight, and a bottle of wine, especially the dark red, it looks like the life-blood of the world.”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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“2 Henry Miller paintings and etc.
       ”
is so good.

“Something about alcohol erases the self-doubt and allows the ego to come out. I’ve had a lot of experiences and, I think, one thing about drinking is, it leads you to avenues you would never find if you didn’t drink. You take chances, you take gambles.”

Excerpt From
On Drinking
Charles Bukowski
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