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Joseph Roth
“That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically.”
Joseph Roth, The Radetzky March

Charles Bukowski
“Nobody but you

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso.
Sarai continuamente messo
in situazioni praticamente
impossibili.

Ti metteranno continuamente alla prova
con sotterfugi, inganni e
sforzi
per farti capitolare, arrendere e/o morire silenziosamente
dentro.

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e sarà abbastanza facile fallire
davvero facilissimo
ma non farlo, non farlo, non farlo.
Guardali e basta.
Ascoltali.
Vuoi diventare così?
Un essere senza volto, senza cervello, senza cuore?
Vuoi provare
la morte prima della morte?

Nessuno può salvarti se non
tu stesso
e vale la pena di salvarti.
È una guerra non facile da vincere
ma se c’è qualcosa che vale la pena vincere
è questa.

Pensaci su
pensa al fatto di salvare il tuo io.

Il tuo io spirituale.
il tuo io viscerale.
il tuo io magico che canta e
il tuo io bellissimo.
Salvalo.
Non unirti ai morti-di-spirito.

Mantieni il tuo io
con umorismo e benevolenza
e alla fine
se necessario
scommetti sulla tua vita mentre combatti,
fottitene dei pronostici, fottitene
del prezzo.

Solo tu puoi salvare il tuo
io.

Fallo! Fallo!

Allora saprai esattamente di cosa
sto parlando.”
Charles Bukowski

Alice Munro
“A story is not like a road to follow … it's more like a house. You go inside and stay there for a while, wandering back and forth and settling where you like and discovering how the room and corridors relate to each other, how the world outside is altered by being viewed from these windows. And you, the visitor, the reader, are altered as well by being in this enclosed space, whether it is ample and easy or full of crooked turns, or sparsely or opulently furnished. You can go back again and again, and the house, the story, always contains more than you saw the last time. It also has a sturdy sense of itself of being built out of its own necessity, not just to shelter or beguile you.”
Alice Munro, Selected Stories

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