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The Barstool Romantic: Charles Bukowski, How To Be A Great Writer

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 12:38:15 -0400

The Barstool Romantic: Charles Bukowski, How To Be A Great Writer:

you’ve got to fuck a great many women
beautiful women
and write a few decent love poems.

and don’t worry about age
and/or freshly-arrived talents.

just drink more beer
more and more beer

and attend the racetrack at least once a

week

and win
if possible

learning to win is hard -
any slob can be a good loser.

and don’t forget your Brahms
and your Bach and your
beer.

don’t overexercise.

sleep until noon.

avoid paying credit cards
or paying for anything on
time.

remember that there isn’t a piece of ass
in this world over $50
(in 1977).

and if you have the ability to love
love yourself first
but always be aware of the possibility of
total defeat
whether the reason for that defeat
seems right or wrong -

an early taste of death is not necessarily
a bad thing.

stay out of churches and bars and museums,
and like the spider be
patient -
time is everybody’s cross,
plus
exile
defeat
treachery

all that dross.

stay with the beer.

beer is continuous blood.

a continuous lover.

get a large typewriter
and as the footsteps go up and down
outside your window

hit that thing
hit it hard

make it a heavyweight fight

make it the bull when he first charges in

and remember the old dogs
who fought so well:
Hemingway, Celine, Dostoevsky, Hamsun.

If you think they didn’t go crazy
in tiny rooms
just like you’re doing now

without women
without food
without hope

then you’re not ready.

drink more beer.
there’s time.
and if there’s not
that’s all right
too.

Charles Bukowski, How To Be A Great Writer

fuckyeahtattoos: done by tattoo zoo in victoria, bc.

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 12:05:46 -0400

fuckyeahtattoos:

done by tattoo zoo in victoria, bc.

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Mon, 01 Apr 2013 16:55:46 -0400

"Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you."

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:49:08 -0400

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

- Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters (via nilemarr)

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Thu, 21 Mar 2013 01:42:00 -0400

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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:26:08 -0400

"The most common form of despair is not being who you are."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:14:40 -0400

“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”

- Soren Kierkegaard (via likeafieldmouse)

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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:10:53 -0400

wilwheaton: nomadicdreamer: So I wrote to every single...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:10:26 -0400

wilwheaton:

nomadicdreamer:

So I wrote to every single Arkansas Senator and this was Senator Alan Clark’s thinly-veiled contemptuous response. He is clearly unwilling to be civil in a discussion about his legislation and very ready to jump to conclusions and force words into other people’s mouths. It’s interesting that he should be “representing” anyone.

Wow. Alan Clark is a reprehensible scumbag. I hope the people who are represented by him are as appalled by his response as I am, and I certainly hope they’re more decent human beings than he is.

WTF, HUH?!

Wow.

Could it be love? I will always love Arrested Development. My...

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:07:21 -0400

Could it be love?

I will always love Arrested Development. My favorite comedy show ever, probably.

10knotes: thefrogman: Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:06:15 -0400

10knotes:

thefrogman:

Three Word Phrase by Ryan Pequin

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Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:04:21 -0400

"Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:02:05 -0400

“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose and their truths, and even make us laugh about ourselves or life, our buoyancy is restored. We are given a shot at dancing with, or at least clapping along with, the absurdity of life, instead of being squashed by it over and over again. It’s like singing on a boat during a terrible storm at sea. You can’t stop the raging storm, but singing can change the hearts and spirits of the people who are together on that ship.”

- Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life (via excessivebookshelf)

"I filled my gas tank to 33 dollars and 33 cents and told you it was for you because it was your..."

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:31 -0400

“

I filled my gas tank to 33 dollars and 33 cents
and told you it was for you
because it was your favorite number.

I organized our belongings
(white t-shirts—books—toothbrushes—
baby, this is where we keep our sweaters)
as if using the word “our” would embed myself
into what you call home.

I bought flowers from a homeless man
because you are a botany major.
I wanted to bring them to you,
wilting and loveless, and show you how
I can nurture something worth saving.

There is a five-finger scar above my breast.
There is an orchestra on my neck shaped like your pulse
from all the nights you held me the way
you only hold something slipping.

There are 6 states
pressed like stubborn flowers
between the last time I kissed you and today,
but you still feel like a sound caught in my throat.

”

-
Sierra DeMulder, “During the Month it Took You to Leave Me”

(via lazyteen)

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Mon, 18 Mar 2013 23:57:32 -0400

Day 76 - Grace in Small Things Sunday #131.) Having no shortage...

Sun, 17 Mar 2013 16:49:43 -0400

Day 76 - Grace in Small Things Sunday #13

1.) Having no shortage of ideas for stories, my mind is overflowing.

2.) A relaxing, fun weekend –…

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Day 75 - Thoughts on Dreams, Writing & Blogging (A Brain Dump)

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 23:50:12 -0400

Lately I have not been able to remember my dreams well, which is something that I never had a problem with before. All my life I have been able to remember most of my dreams, every night it was a new adventure in vivid color and detail. I would see whole…

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Day 74 - I have a thing for these.View Post

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:50:37 -0400

Day 74 - I have a thing

for these.

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Day 73 - A Big Book Backlog

Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:45:27 -0400

Back in the day I used to blog about all of the books I read. Whenever I finished a book I would immediately blog about it – I am not going to flatter myself and say I reviewed the books, because I notoriously fail at making my own summarizations and…

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Day 72 - Old TimesI haven’t paid for my Flickr accountsince...

Wed, 13 Mar 2013 23:35:27 -0400

Day 72 - Old Times

I haven’t paid for my Flickr accountsince 2010, but I went through a hellish process to recover my…

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