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Book cover for Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings by Mark Twain

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He concedes that God gives to each man his temperament, his disposition, at birth; he concedes that man cannot by any process change this temperament, but must remain always under its dominion. Yet if it be full of dreadful passions, in one man's case, and barren of them in another man's, it is right and rational to punish the one for his crimes, and reward the other for abstaining from crime.

Ron’s Quotes

“Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul.”
― Charles Bukowski

tags: dimension, madness, reality, soul, understand-me

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“That girl enjoyed everything that bored me and everything that I enjoyed bored her. We were the perfect mates: what kept us going was the tolerable and intolerable distance between us. We kept meeting each day—and each night—with nothing solved and no chance to solve it. Perfection.”
― Charles Bukowski, Shakespeare Never Did This: A 1978 Travel Memoir of Germany, Paparazzi, Racetracks, and Cathedrals

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“He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the inn warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

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“You look down in the mouth. You all right?” “Lost a woman.” “You’ll have others and lose them too.”
― Charles Bukowski, Factotum

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