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“your best men are drunks and your worst men are locking them up, your best men are killers and your worst men are selling them bullets”

Book:Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

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Betting on the Muse: Poems & Stories

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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

“Vegard and Riston's job today was to guard and protect me. And considering that I was in a tower room in the Guardians' citadel, it looked like a pretty plum assignment. I mean, how much trouble could a girl get into under heavy guard in a tower room? Notice I didn't ask that question out loud. No need to rub Fate's nose in something when I'd been tempting her enough lately. Phaelan had generously his guard services as well, just in case something happened to me that my Guardian bodyguards couldn't handle. Phaelan's guard-on-duty stance resembled his pirate-on-shore-leave stane of leaning back in a chair with his feet up, but instead of a tavern table, his boots were doing a fine job of holding down the windowsill. I don't know how I'd ever felt safe without him.”

Sarcasm Wry Observational Comedy

Book:Armed & Magical

Source: Armed & Magical

“Nobody is right and nobody is wrong. Only one thing is right, and that is the Truth, but nobody knows what it is. It is a thing that changes all the time, and then comes back to the same thing. -Old Yao”

Truth Pursuit Of Truth Wry

Book:Moment in Peking

Source: Moment in Peking

“She's some kind of Socialist-anarchist-anarcho-syndicalist-Communist. Unless you're one of them you can't tell exactly what any of them are.”

Wry

Book:Homer & Langley

Source: Homer & Langley

“His mastery of the hard-luck story was of a kind never achieved by persons not wholly concentrated on themselves.”

Wry Incisive

Book:A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

Source: A Dance to the Music of Time: 1st Movement

“Character is just an invention, but it's an invention that serves as both reason and justification for our behaviour. - Broken Verses”

Inspirational Philosophical Wry

Author:Kamila Shamsie

“When we talk about Poetry, with a capital P, we are apt to think only of the more intense emotions or the more magical phrase: nevertheless there are a great many casements in poetry which are not magic, and which do not open on the foam of perilous seas, but are perfectly good windows for all that.”

Poetry Wry

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Sai stands in his spineless way, young but antiquated, studious but not clever, a thick steel watch on his wrist, his oiled black hair combed in the good-boy hairstyle. He looks like the past of an old man”

Awesome Descriptive Wry

Author:Manu Jospeh

“I am one strong sneeze away from a full-on breakdown at any moment”

Funny Wry

Book:The Bound Worlds

Source: The Bound Worlds

“You give me much good counsel," he said aloud. "I'm tired of it.”

Humor Advice Wry

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“The Dark Ages are alive and secretly thriving like a herpes infection among us.”

Humor Wry Observations On Life Unexpected Humor Unexpected Life

Author:Juilette Fay

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