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“I drive around the streets
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
an inch away from weeping,
ashamed of my sentimentality and
possible love.”
― Love Is a Dog from Hell
“I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. Kennedy himself was 9/10ths the way around the clock or he wouldn't have accepted such an enervating and enfeebling job -- meaning President of the United States of America. How can I be concerned with the murder of one man when almost all men, plus females, are taken from cribs as babies and almost immediately thrown into the masher?”
― Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993
― Charles Bukowski: Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters 1963-1993
“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 8:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so? ”
― Factotum
― Factotum
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
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“There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives, they piss on their lives. They shit them away. Dumb fuckers. They concentrate too much on fucking, movies, money, family, fucking. Their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them. Their brains are stuffed with cotton. They look ugly, they talk ugly, they walk ugly. Play them the great music of the centuries and they can't hear it. Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die.”
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Mariana’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mariana’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
749 books
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202 friends
523 books
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51 friends
136 books
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915 friends
257 books
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222 friends
55 books
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120 friends
320 books
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118 friends
72 books
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63 friends
20 books
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74 friends
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