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booksandteaandstuff · 19 days

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“After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, "Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us.”

Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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booksandteaandstuff · 19 days

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“I'm quitting." "Quitting?" "Yes, you can't blame a man for wanting to better himself.”

Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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booksandteaandstuff · 19 days

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“The post office, or any world of work, is only one institutionalised system of control that is designed to beat people, to condition them into accepting that humiliation and failure is the norm. Those who do not rebel against this lose any ability to think for themselves. The workers are robbed of power whilst the bosses have only a small amount of it and can only use it arbitrarily, which is to say, pointlessly.”

Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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booksandteaandstuff · 19 days

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“In the morning it was morning and I was still alive. Maybe I'll write a novel, I thought. And then I did.”

Charles Bukowski, Post Office

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booksandteaandstuff · 24 days

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"More men just means more losses for them and few men just means fewer for us."

The Secret History of the Mongols, Christopher P. Atwood (Translator)

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booksandteaandstuff · 24 days

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"...pledged to each other, if in envy of us, a snake with teeth should try to provoke by trying words we'll not be tempted, but talking in person, we will truly believe. Or if a snake with fangs should slander the other by slanderous thoughts we will not be swindled, But speaking in person we'll sincerely believe."

The Secret History of the Mongols, Christopher P. Atwood (Translator)

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booksandteaandstuff · 24 days

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"When bursting out from my hot womb, he wielded in his hand a black clot. Like a hound that dovours its own heam, Like a panther that pounces against a cliff, like a lion that cannot restrain its wrath, like a python that takes its prey alive, like a saker that stoops at its shadow, like a pike that swallows soundless, like a bull camel that bites its calf's heel, like a wolf that stalks in the whirling blissard, like a drake that eats the ducklings it cannot direct, like a dhole that joins in league to defend its lair, like a tiger that wastes not time to take its prey, like a cur that hunts with cunning cruelty, you killed."

The Secret History of the Mongols, Christopher P. Atwood (Translator)

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booksandteaandstuff · 24 days

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"This boy of yours is a boy with flame in his eyes and fire in his face."

The Secret History of the Mongols, Christopher P. Atwood (Translator)

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booksandteaandstuff · 2 months

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“Yes, one can wager war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbor while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.”

Albert Camus, The Fall