"If you are going to try, go all the way or don't even start. If you follow it you will be alive with the gods. It is the only good fight there is."

-- Charles Bukowski

#Fighting Quotes #Trying Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Darkness bound them closer than light.”
“There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...”

Source : Mark Helprin (2012). “In Sunlight and in Shadow”, p.27, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If your reaction to your partner's fear-or any other form of distress- is disdain or irritation, you do not want oneness or even friendship with your partner at that moment.”
“The only thing that might make me stay in bed would be fear. Once I get rest, then I can overcome the fear of a given day and then I'm ready. I'm ready to go. Not that I always have that fear, but sometimes that's the only thing that would keep me in bed more than just the laziness.”
“See it, believe it, achieve it.”
“People are taking it for granted that [the Negro] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency.”

Source : Paul Laurence Dunbar (2010). “The Sport of the Gods: and Other Essential Writings”, p.358, Modern Library
“Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may.”
“I'm not a very intentional writer. I try to be as unintentional as possible. What I basically try to do is invite the zeitgeist in to tea.”

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