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“I was simply the target of their discontent and in some real sense they blamed me for not being able to rouse them out of a failed past; what they didn’t consider was that I had my troubles too—most of them caused by simply living with them.”
― Charles Bukowski, Run With The Hunted: A Charles Bukowski Reader – The Best Novels, Stories, and Poems from a Harrowing and Exhilarating Life

“Life changes. It shapes itself into the most indefinite things; can become its opposite in a matter of seconds. Sometimes people scorn the quick, sharp tongue of life, but I don’t think that’s fair. Why would you act against something that’s just doing its job?”
― Isabella Sutter

“To survive one tragedy was to learn you cannot survive them all, and this knowledge was both a freedom and a great loss.”
― Chris Womersley, Bereft

“I was still tough but it wasn’t the same. I had to withdraw. I watched people from afar, it was like a stage play. Only they were on stage and I was an audience of one.”
― Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye