Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was: communism, health foods, zen, surfing, ballet, hypnotism, group encounters, orgies, biking, herbs, Catholicism, weight-lifting, travel, withdrawal, vegetarianism, India, painting, writing, sculpting, composing, conducting, backpacking, yoga, copulating, gambling, drinking, hanging around, frozen yogurt, Beethoven, Back, Buddha, Christ, TM, H, carrot juice, suicide, handmade suits, jet travel, New York City, and then it all evaporated and fell apart. People had to find things to do while waiting to die. I guess it was nice to have a choice.
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Related I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight l... BRAD MELTZER When I moved to New York, I was waiting tables, painting in the daytime and working at night, and I ... CECILY BROWN In 1998, Vanity Fair asked me to write a big piece for them on the 50th anniversary of the New York ... ROBERT GOTTLIEB Radio City Music Hall was at the table. Alvin Ailey, Hubbard Street, the New York City Ballet, Ameri... RICHARD GIBBS Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I fell in love with New York. It was like every human being, like any relationship. When I was a you... MIKHAIL BARYSHNIKOV I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS Even in the '70s, I used to think it was silly to stand around pushing and shoving to get your tradi... ROBERT BRIGHT The things I was allowed to experience, the people I was able to call friends, teammates, mentors, c... CURT SCHILLING Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it SARA SHEPARD It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York! BOB WISE When I was 18, I was moving to New York to start college at The New School. I had done a year of col... STACEY FARBER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m... ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt... ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank... ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ... ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate... ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ... ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices. ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag... ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future. ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea... ANDREW TO I enjoyed my time in Utah. It was a different area to what I was used to. The people there were very... JOHN STARKS I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me. TOBA BETA Does the New York City Ballet affect other places? Yeah, it lets people know they should come to New... 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LARRY WHITE Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven... DANIEL BARENBOIM Everything was going my way. I was happily marching into the history books. Then it all just fell ap... GEORGE MICHAEL I moved to New York City for my health. I'm paranoid and it was the only place where my fears were j... ANITA WEISS There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study wit... CHARLIE HADEN Back then, there weren't a lot of homes around and it was a short hitchhike to the beach at Newport.... DAVID NUUHIWA I started writing 'Leaves Of Grass' when my professional life was falling apart somewhat. I ... TIM BLAKE NELSON Back then, my air fare on Eastern Airlines to fly from Florida to where Marge was stationed in New Y... BUD THURMAN In Japan, there's a TV series called Jin. 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JOSEPH BRUNO Basically it was a traveling company the first few years. They had no home. They would travel around... ELAINE VOGEL Jonn Deire picked up eight yellowed and dog-eared cards from the pile, grumbling ‘garrn’ under h... CHRISTINA ENGELA It all fell away then – the control, the independence . . . everything. She had known it would nev... UMAIR NAEEM He said I was a communicator, and he gave me a car to travel around selling Jet magazine to stores. ... JESSE JACKSON My first ever job after college was as a flight attendant. I wanted to travel and could not afford i... JACQUELINE WINSPEAR I was frozen in my seat. It was the first time I had ever seen people like me on the screen. GAVIN HOOD As I looked out at the water, I realized there was nowhere to go, nowhere left to run. And I just ha... MORGAN MATSON Sadly, we give little thought or consideration to the messages that we entertain. ASA DON BROWN Responsibility is the admission that you have a role in this game called life. 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CHARLES BUKOWSKI as long as there are human beings about there is never going to be any peace for... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I have, he went on, betrayed myself with belief, deluded myself with love tricked myself w... CHARLES BUKOWSKI is there any wonder why the world is where it’s at now? just notice the creature sitting near you ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI they thought that writing had something to do with the politics of the thing. CHARLES BUKOWSKI it’s as if he were hiding in there and I want to console him, say: “I am sorry, poor fellow, but... CHARLES BUKOWSKI it is a fine sunny day and great matters loom across the horizon of history. Carthage in my rearview... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI another hot summer night as I sit here and play at being a writer again. and the worst thing of cour... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Living too long takes more than time CHARLES BUKOWSKI humanity you sick motherfucker. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I look like a man in a death camp. I am. still, I'm lucky: I feat on solitude, ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI Writing is its own intoxication. CHARLES BUKOWSKI if I had a book or a drink then I didn’t think too much of other things—fools create their own p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you know, my former life as a bibliophile, it possibly kept me from murdering somebody, myself i... CHARLES BUKOWSKI alone tonight in this house, alone with 6 cats who tell me without effort all that there is to know. CHARLES BUKOWSKI a bird no one wants. he’s mine. my bird of pain. he doesn’t sing. that bird swaying on the bough... CHARLES BUKOWSKI of one hundred movies there's one that is fair, one that's good and ninety eight that are very bad. ... CHARLES BUKOWSKI people are worn away with striving, they hide in common habits. their concerns are herd concerns. fe... CHARLES BUKOWSKI death is walking up and down this room smoking my cigars taking hits of my <... CHARLES BUKOWSKI there was a soldier in the next room living with his wife and he would soon be going over there to p... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread CHARLES BUKOWSKI well, death says, as he walks by, I'm going to get you anyhow no matter what you've been: writer, ca... CHARLES BUKOWSKI not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. CHARLES BUKOWSKI great books are the ones we need CHARLES BUKOWSKI young or old, good or bad, I don't think anything dies as slow and as hard as a writer. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me. CHARLES BUKOWSKI writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all CHARLES BUKOWSKI I tell you such fine music waits in the shadows of hell. CHARLES BUKOWSKI I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Now we are citizens of nothing. the sun itself knows the sad truth of how we surrendered our lives a... CHARLES BUKOWSKI I was sentimental about many things: a woman’s shoes under the bed; one hairpin left behind on the... CHARLES BUKOWSKI