"The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."ģ9. Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, would numb and cover them. I remembered the cadavers and Doreen and the story of the fig tree and Marco's diamond and the sailor on the Common and Doctor Gordon's wall-eyed nurse and the broken thermometers and the Negro with his two kinds of beans and the twenty pounds I gained on insulin and the rock that bulged between sky and sea like a gray skull. Submitted by Norminy Tan Barodi, Facebookģ7. "Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of (another)" And, when all is perceived in such a way as to obviate time, justice becomes apparent not as something that will be, but something that is."ģ0. In the end, or rather, as things really are, any event, no matter how small, is intimately and sensibly tied to all others. "Nothing is random, nor will anything ever be. Charles Bukowski, The Captain Is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the ShipĢ9.
We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing." "We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. "The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly."Ģ8. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic."Ģ5. "Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. 'That in itself is a tremendous thing.'"Ģ4. I've never done anything for you.' 'You have been my friend,' replied Charlotte. "'Why did you do all this for me?' he asked. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward all the life there is with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. "The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones that never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars."Ģ2. Alexandre Dumas, fils, The Lady of the CamelliasĢ0. "Be good, be young, be true! Evil is nothing but vanity, let us have the pride of good, and above all let us never despair." From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring renenwed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being.