"They have no idea that it can be done by a bus driver, a field hand, or a fry cook. They have no idea where it comes from. It comes from pain, damnation and impossibility. The blow to the soul of the gut. It comes from getting burned and seared and slugged. It comes from...new and awful places and the same old places."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Pain Quotes #Blow Quotes #Hands Quotes

“If literary fiction is reduced to only middle-class families dealing only with middle-class angst, then itâ€™s really finished as a force for grappling with the world.”

Source : "'There Is Another World in Our World': A Conversation with J. M. Ledgard" by Philip Gourevitch, www.newyorker.com. April 30, 2013.
“She scissored the curls away, and - toms, grow easily sentimental over their haircuts, but I remember this sensation very vividly - it was not like she was cutting hair, it was as if I had a pair of wings beneath my shoulder-blades, that the flesh had all grown over, and she was slicing free...”
“And for all my rampant technological optimism, sometimes I think I'd be more comfortable if I were regarding these transcendental events from one thousand years remove... instead of twenty.”
“I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner.”
“He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.”
“A Boy Should Know How to Tie a Tie and Other Lessons for Succeeding in Life.”
“Artists were nurtured back in the '70s. Their music was developed by the record companies.”
“A champion of the workingman has never been known to die of overwork.”

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