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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: belonging, company, desires, literature, longings
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.
    "Whenever you feel like criticizing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: f-scott-fitzgerald, narrator, the-great-gatsby
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon?” cried Daisy, “and the day after that, and the next thirty years?”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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    Ray Bradbury
    “You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
    tags: writing
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    Samuel Beckett
    “We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Samuel Beckett
    “You're on Earth. There's no cure for that.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
    tags: life, planets, space-travel
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    Samuel Beckett
    “I can't go on, I'll go on.”
    ― Samuel Beckett, I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader
    tags: absurdity, drama, existentialism, fiction, humor, nihilism, tragedy, tragic-comedy
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    Samuel Beckett
    “My mistakes are my life.”
    ― Samuel Beckett
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night
    tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut
    tags: humour, telekinetics
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    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humor
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    Charles Bukowski
    “Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.”
    ― Charles Bukowski
    tags: humour
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    Charles Bukowski
    “You have to die a few times before you can really
    live.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “in that drunken place
    you would
    like to hand your heart to her
    and say
    touch it
    but then
    give it back.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “great writers are indecent people
    they live unfairly
    saving the best part for paper.

    good human beings save the world
    so that bastards like me can keep creating art,
    become immortal.
    if you read this after I am dead
    it means I made it.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
    tags: writers, writing
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    Charles Bukowski
    “there are worse things
    than being alone
    but it often takes
    decades to realize this
    and most often when you do
    it's too late
    and there's nothing worse
    than too late”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I sit here
    drunk now.
    I am
    a series of
    small victories
    and large defeats
    and I am as
    amazed
    as any other
    that
    I have gotten
    from there to
    here
    without committing murder
    or being
    murdered;
    without
    having ended up in the
    madhouse.

    as I drink alone
    again tonight
    my soul despite all the past
    agony
    thanks all the gods
    who were not
    there
    for me
    then.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
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    Charles Bukowski
    “I drive around the streets
    an inch away from weeping,
    ashamed of my sentimentality and
    possible love.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Love Is a Dog from Hell
    tags: love, sentimentality, weep, weeping
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    John Green
    “Thomas Edison's last words were "It's very beautiful over there". I don't know where there is, but I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it's beautiful.”
    ― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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    Franz Kafka
    “So then you’re free?’
    ‘Yes, I’m free,’ said Karl, and nothing seemed more worthless than his freedom.”
    ― Franz Kafka, Amerika
    tags: freedom
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    Ernest Hemingway
    “There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway
    tags: good, writing
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    Leonard Cohen
    “The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: insomnia, sleeping-world, superiority
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    Leonard Cohen
    “Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
    tags: ash, evidence, inspiration, life, poetry, writing
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    Leonard Cohen
    “I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.”
    ― Leonard Cohen
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    Leonard Cohen
    “How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”
    ― Leonard Cohen, Beautiful Losers
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    Jack Kerouac
    “[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!”
    ― Jack Kerouac, On the Road
    tags: freethinker, inspirational, mad
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    Jack Kerouac
    “I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till i drop. This is the night, what it does to you. I had nothing to offer anybody except my own confusion.”
    ― Jack Kerouac
    tags: on-the-road, sal-paradise
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