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Charles Bukowski
“I wanted the whole world or nothing.”
Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Charles Bukowski
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
Charles Bukowski

J. Andrew Schrecker
“And yes, life is
mostly boring, and
we each go through it
feeling ugly or like
a failure, but sometimes
the sun cuts through
a tree line just right, or
you get to hold
someone's hand for
the first time.”
J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

J. Andrew Schrecker
“There's a lot of humiliation in
living, but that's okay, for if
the gods are always laughing,
then surely at times they must
be laughing with us.”
J. Andrew Schrecker, Insomniacs, We

T.S. Eliot
“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”
T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land and Other Poems

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