Here I was a virgin. Could you imagine getting your ass blown off for the sake of history before you even knew what a woman was? Or owned an automobile? What would I be protecting? Somebody else. Somebody else who didn't give a **** about me. Dying in a war never stopped wars…
~ Charles Bukowski
"I would set you free, if I knew how. But it isn't free out here. All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all."
-Gravity's Rainbow
"The model of a romantic, self-destructive, crazy genius that they and others provide us is understandable as part of the alienation of people from the cancerous and explosive growth of Western nations during the last one hundred and fifty years. Zen and Chinese poetry demonstrate that a truly creative person is more truly sane; that this romantic view of crazy genius is just another reflection of the craziness of our times… I aspire to and admire a sanity from which, as in a climax ecosystem, one has spare energy to go on to even more challenging — which is to say more spiritual and more deeply physical — things."--Gary Snyder
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
~James Baldwin
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true. ...”
“The ideal subject of totalitarianism is...people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.”
~Hannah Arendt
I know lots of people who are educated far beyond their intelligence." --Lewis Grizzard
Earth without art is just eh.
- Banksy, presumably
@edgarblythe,
I don't mind dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
"The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons." - Fyodor Dostoevsky
Who am I? Why am I here?
James Stockdale
Sinéad O'Connor once said: 'Living authentically in a society that punishes the truth requires great courage. 💪🔥 There is nothing more dangerous or challenging than a person who, when facing adversity and social expectations, refuses to stay silent, to be false, or to submit to what goes against their deepest convictions. 🌟⚡ Being genuine in a world that rewards appearance and conformity has a high cost 💸, but it also offers the greatest of rewards: inner freedom. 🕊️✨ I honestly prefer to lose everything before betraying my being, my essence, and my most fundamental principles. ✌️🙌 It is not worth giving up who you are just to fit into someone else's mold. 🚫🛑💯💖'
Source: Ankor inclan
"Let the lie come into the world... But not through me. The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie." --Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The streets are crawling…with the mad and the unemployed and the disabled. Meanwhile, we celebrate the greatness of America. Nobody can ever celebrate the greatness of their nation when your eyes don’t look at those who are mad and sick…No, America’s not very much.
~ Charles Bukowski
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra
"Don't let the ugly in others kill the beauty in you."
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“The whole world is a sack of **** ripping open. I can’t save it.”
~Charles Bukowski, The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship
Another. Why? Because I like this old drunk.
We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.
~ Charles Bukowski
"He said it's easier for girls to dress modestly than for boys to behave. And so I told him I wasn't interested in following rules that make life harder for girls so it can be easier for boys." --Kirsten Miller, from "Lula Dean's Little Library of Banned Books"
"If you're in trouble or hurt or need, go to poor people. They're the only ones that'll help, the only ones."
- John Steinbeck
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only.
Dickens
