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    Charles Bukowski
    “some men never
    die
    and some men never
    live

    but we're all alive
    tonight.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: death, life, poetry
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    Arthur Miller
    “The only thing you've got in this world is what you can sell.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
    tags: tragedy
    62 likes

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  • #3
    Franz Kafka
    “it is not necessary to accept everything as true, one must only accept it as necessary.' 'A melancholy conclusion,' said K. 'It turns lying into a universal principle.”
    ― Franz Kafka, The Trial
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    Charles Bukowski
    “what matters most is how well you walk through the fire”
    ― Charles Bukowski
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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: loneliness, misattributed
    7845 likes

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  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
    ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent
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  • #7
    Anthony Burgess
    “When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.”
    ― Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
    tags: choice, life, man
    903 likes

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  • #8
    H.G. Bissinger
    “Instead of understanding that they were the beneficiaries of history, they began to believe that they were the creators of it.”
    ― H.G. Bissinger, Friday Night Lights
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  • #9
    Phil Jackson
    “The most we can hope for is to create the best possible conditions for success, then let go of the outcome. The ride is a lot more fun that way.”
    ― Phil Jackson, Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
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    J.D. Salinger
    “The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
    ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
    tags: attributed, growing-up, wilhelm-stekel
    2952 likes

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  • #11
    Mitch Albom
    “There are no random acts...We are all connected...You can no more separate one life from another than you can separate a breeze from the wind...”
    ― Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    tags: life
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  • #12
    Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
    “Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?”
    ― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
    tags: humor
    105 likes

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  • #13
    Charles Bukowski
    “the courage it took to get out of bed each
    morning
    to face the same things
    over and over
    was
    enormous.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: courage
    436 likes

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  • #14
    Charles Bukowski
    “regret is mostly caused by not having
    done anything.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: bukowski, death, life, love, poem, poetry, regret, regrets, truth
    339 likes

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  • #15
    Charles Bukowski
    “there’s nothing to
    discuss
    there’s nothing to
    remember
    there’s nothing to
    forget

    it’s sad
    and
    it’s not
    sad

    seems the
    most sensible
    thing
    a person can
    do
    is
    sit
    with drink in
    hand
    as the walls
    wave
    their goodbye
    smiles

    one comes through
    it
    all
    with a certain
    amount of
    efficiency and
    bravery
    then
    leaves

    some accept
    the possibility of
    God
    to help them
    get
    through

    others
    take it
    staight on

    and to these

    I drink
    tonight.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
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  • #16
    Charles Bukowski
    “having nothing to struggle
    against
    they have nothing to struggle
    for.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: battle, bukowski, death, life, love, poem, poetry, strength, strength-through-adversity, stronger, struggle
    225 likes

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  • #17
    Charles Bukowski
    “the worst thing," he told me,
    "is bitterness, people end up so
    bitter.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: bitter, bitterness, bukowski, death, in-the-end, individuality, life, love, personality, poem, poetry, self, soul
    185 likes

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  • #18
    Charles Bukowski
    “she wasn't very
    interesting
    but few people
    are.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: boring, bukowski, conversation, death, family, humanity, interesting, life, love, people, poem, poetry, society, women
    106 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “there's no clarity.
    there was never meant to be clarity.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: alone, bukowski, clarity, death, life, loneliness, lonely, love, nonsense, poem, poetry
    104 likes

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  • #20
    Charles Bukowski
    “the price of creation
    is never
    too high.

    the price of living
    with other people
    always
    is.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: bukowski, creation, death, humanity, life, living, love, people, poem, poetry, society
    73 likes

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  • #21
    Charles Bukowski
    “sometimes it's hard to know
    what to
    do.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
    tags: bukowski, death, knowing, knowledge, life, love, poem, poetry
    64 likes

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  • #22
    Arthur Miller
    “Why am I trying to become what I don’t want to be … when all I want is out there, waiting for me the minute I say I know who I am.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
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  • #23
    Arthur Miller
    “A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman: Text and Criticism
    tags: men
    177 likes

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  • #24
    Arthur Miller
    “Sometimes...it's better for a man just to walk away.
    But if you can't walk away?
    I guess that's when it's tough.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
    124 likes

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  • #25
    Arthur Miller
    “Be loving to him. Because he’s only a little boat looking for a harbor.”
    ― Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman
    82 likes

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  • #26
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: jordan-baker
    4727 likes

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    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: renewal, summer
    4454 likes

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  • #28
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    3952 likes

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  • #29
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
    tags: demographics
    3099 likes

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  • #30
    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
    3206 likes



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