Marta

“Everything was eternally dreary, dismal, damned. Even the weather was insolent and bitchy.”
― charles bukowski, Ham on Rye

“I'd decided the campus was just a place to hide. There were some campus freaks who stayed on forever. The whole college scene was soft. They never told you what to expect out there in the real world. They just crammed you with theory and never told you how hard the pavements were. A college education could destroy an individual for life. Books could make you soft. When you put them down, and really went out there, then you needed to know what they never told you.”
― Charles Bukowski , Ham on Rye

“What’s the easiest fucking thing to take?” I asked him. “Journalism. Those journalism majors don’t do anything.” “O.K., I’ll be a journalist.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye

“And then along came Hemingway. What a thrill! He knew how to lay down a line. It was a joy. Words weren’t dull, words were things that could make your mind hum. If you read them and let yourself feel the magic, you could live without pain, with hope, no matter what happened to you.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye