#mudfish quotes

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I want to be the one you want in your mind and your gut and your bathroom. But I don’t want you to fuck the whole world to find out.

Bukowski

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God's pretty far away from me, maybe inside a beer bottle somewhere, and sure I'm crude, they've made me crude and in a sense I'm crude because I want to work things down to where they are - that is the knife going in, or staring at a whore's asshole, that's where the work is going on, and I don't want to be fooled too much and I don't want to food anybody else.

Charles Bukowski on writing. 

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I like to travel, it's better than sticking around.

Louis CK

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The American audience doesn't care about an actor's private life, doesn't want his show continued simply because he's honorable and truthful and has the best interests of the nation at heart in private life. Only one thing matters: Can he jazz up on camera.

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegut

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Does your surge of popularity make you uncomfortable in any way? VONNEGUT: No, it's all right, because it's the books that are popular. And I don't read them or think about them; they're just out in the world on their own. They aren't me. Neither is my reputation. I've pretty much stopped making public appearances, because I'm so unlike my books or reputation.

Wampeters, Foma & Granfalloons - Kurt Vonnegt

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You think you can become a more authentic person by fighting in a war?

Calvary

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And it strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that a man can always solve his problems.

Kurt Vonnegut - Wampeters, Granfaloons and The Foma

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Ideas are substitutes for grief

Marcel Proust