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“If this was the afterlife, he thought, it was a lot like the House on the Rock: part diorama, part nightmare.”
― Neil Gaiman, American Gods

“Man is the victim of an environment which refuses to understand his soul.”
― Charles Bukowski, Tales of Ordinary Madness

“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

“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