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“I like to prowl ordinary places and taste the people- from a distance.”

Book:Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit

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Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski, born on August 16, 1920, was an influential American poet. Known for his unique style and profound depiction of the lives of the underclass in America, he is considered one of the representatives of the Beat Generation. more

“Nothing is ordinary,' said the tyger. 'Everything is extraordinary. In all of infinity and eternity, that flower exists only in this world; this precise position in space and time. Everywhere else, there is a different flower, or no flower at all. And the same is true of you. Nothing special? You are miraculous beyond measure, both of you.”

Ordinary Extraordinary Ordinariness Extraordinariness

Book:Tyger

Source: Tyger

“The trouble in life is not that you are extraordinarily or ordinarily talented but you are read posthumously.”

Life Trouble Talent Ordinary Extraordinary Read

Author:Santosh Kalwar

“She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not because there is anything hideous or repellant about this man but because he has now returned to the ordinary level, the level of things she can see, in all their amazing and complex particularity, but cannot touch.”

Ordinary Objectivity

Book:Bluebeard's Egg

Source: Bluebeard's Egg

“I can't say how you think about love, Cal," he said delicately. "I don't know how you define it, or interpret it. But for me love is a..." He searched for the right words. "Love is this cocktail of feelings: a little bit of affection, fondness, a little bit of lust, maybe even a bit of pity. The intoxication is hard to parse out, but I am intoxicated by you. I love you, Callie.”

Love Life Ordinary

Book:Androne

Source: Androne

“I am convinced that the true Value of an extraordinary Person, or a Genius, is firstly appreciated after his Death, because during his Lifetime, the Jealousy of the most ordinary People, is often greater than their Insight.”

People Death Genius Ordinary Lifetime Extraordinary Value Insight Jealousy Person

Author:Sino Melo

“the world isn't divided into the special and the ordinary. Everyone has the potential to be extraordinary. As long as you have a soul and free will, you can be anything, do anything, choose anything.”

Choices Ordinary Extraordinary Magnus Bane Simon Lewis City Of Heavenly Fire Inner Power

Book:City of Heavenly Fire

Source: City of Heavenly Fire

“when you meet that person. a person. one of your soulmates. let the connection. relationship. be what it is. it may be five mins. five hours. five days. five months. five years. a lifetime. five lifetimes. let it manifest itself the way it is meant to. it has an organic destiny. this way if it stays or if it leaves, you will be softer. from having been loved this authentically. souls come into. return. open. and sweep through your life for a myriad of reasons. let them be who. and what they are meant.”

Love Soulmates Nayyirah Waheed

Author:Nayyirah Waheed

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