there's no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say.
Charles BukowskiTags: personal
I'm too careless. I don't put out enough effort. I'm tired.
Charles BukowskiTags: personal
I'm sorry I was short with him--but I don't like a man to approach me telling me it for my sake.
"Maybe it was," said Wylie
"It's poor technique."
"I'd all for it," said Wylie. "I'm vain as a woman. If anybody pretends to be interested in me, I'll ask for more. I like advice."
Stahr shook his head distastefully. Wylie kept on ribbing him--he was one of those to whom this privilege was permitted. "You fall for some kinds of flattery," he said. "this 'little Napoleon stuff.'"
"It makes me sick," said Stahr, "but it's not as bad as some man trying to help you."
"If you don't like advice, why do you pay me?"
"That's a question of merchandise," said Stahr. "I'm a merchant. I want to buy what's in your mind."
"You're no merchant," said Wylie. "I knew a lot of them when I was a publicity man, and I agree with Charles Francis Adams."
"What did he say?"
"He knew them all--Gould, Vanderbilt, Carnegie, Astor--and he said there wasn't one he'd care to meet again in the hereafter. Well--they haven't improved since then, and that's why I say you're no merchant."
"Adams was probably a sourbelly," said Stahr. "He wanted to be head man himself, but he didn't have the judgement or else the character."
"He had brains," said Wylie rather tartly.
"It takes more than brains. You writers and artists poop out and get all mixed up, and somebody has to come in and straighten you out." He shrugged his shoulders. "You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important-especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside.
Tags: normalcy personal restraint incredulity fi the-last-tycoon
I strive for perfection - I settle for satisfaction
Carroll BryantTags: philosophy humorous personal
You are what you say
Emrald BriskTags: personal
I don’t think I’ve ever seen your handwriting before. It’s an oddly personal thing, isn’t it?
Ann AguirreTags: personal handwriting
My art is the result of a deeply personal, infinitely complex, and still essentially mysterious, exploration of experience. No words will ever touch it.
George BrechtSometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.
Anita ShreveTags: personal
You can only get outside yourself by looking inside.
Tonya HurleyTags: reality self true personal ghostgirl
Sleep is death enjoyed.
Friedrich HebbelTags: life literature quotes personal
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