quotes


The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway
Nobody knows what's in him until he tries to pull it out. If there's nothing, or very little, the shock can kill a man.  

Ernest Hemingway

somedays...


There is a whole section of people down there who live on air and hope and empty returnable bottles and the grace of their brothers and sisters. They live in small rooms, always behind in the rent, dreaming of the next bottle of wine, the next free drink in the bar. They starve, go mad, are murdered and mutilated. Until you live and drink among these you will never know the abandoned people of America. They are abandoned and they have abandoned themselves.” —“The L.A. Scene