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Phil Nguyen • 3 cards
“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and acquaintan... See more
Michael Rosenwald • ‘I wish this guy hadn’t written this book’
Les femmes sont meilleures que nous. Toutes autant qu’elles sont. Rien ne vaut une putain. Les hommes m’ont dépouillé, insulté, tabassé. Je le répète, rien ne vaut une putain. Les femmes ne sont pas conçues pour le mal. Les hommes le sont. Il faut s’être prostitué pour savoir ce qu’est la vie. J’ai été une putain. J’en suis encore. Mais continuons.
Charles Bukowski • Sur l'écriture (LITTÉRATURE GÉNÉRALE) (French Edition)
“I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.” — Charles Bukowski, “Factotum”
Encountered this late-in-life prose poem by Czeslaw Milosz while kicking around different epigraphs for my book; now hearing a voice say "you can stop worrying ... you did what was assigned to you" at age 90 is officially a life goal: https://t.co/jby9VlDiuy
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Good Bones
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