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Charles Bukowski
“i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead.”
Charles Bukowski

Albert Camus
“To create is to live twice.”
Albert Camus

“Another time, another place.”
Richard Bachman, The Long Walk

Anthony Burgess
“As for the new world war that's waiting in the womb of time, a healthily developed foetus, who can say what will spark it, how destructive it will be? We've already played at this war in film and fiction, indicating that there's a part of us that desperately wants it. What nonsense writers and filmmakers talk when they say that their terrible visions are meant as a warning. [...] It's sheer wish fulfillment. War... is a culture pattern. It's a legitimate mode of cultural transmission....”
Anthony Burgess, 1985

Donna Tartt
“A wilderness of gilt, gleaming in the slant from the dust-furred windows: gilded cupids, gilded commodes and torchieres, and -- undercutting the old-wood smell -- the reek of turpentine, oil paint, and varnish.”
Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

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