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“There are times when those eyes inside your brain stare back at you.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“The poor had a right to fuck their way through their bad dreams. Sex and drink, and maybe love, was all they had.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“Too often the people complain that they have done nothing with their
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
lives and then they wait for somebody to tell them that this isn't so.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe
but belief is a
graveyard.”
― What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
“I knew that I wasn’t entirely sane. I still knew, as I had as a child, that there was something strange about myself. I felt as if I were destined to be a murderer, a bank robber, a saint, a rapist, a monk, a hermit. I needed an isolated place to hide. Skid row was disgusting. The life of the sane, average man was dull, worse than death. There seemed to be no possible alternative. Education also seemed to be a trap. The little education I had allowed myself had made me more suspicious. What were doctors, lawyers, scientists? They were just men who allowed themselves to be deprived of their freedom to think and act as individuals. I went back to my shack and drank...”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
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