Bukowski was a committed alcoholic. He was also dead serious about his writing. He wrote at night, with booze in one hand, smokes in the other, classical music on the radio, typing away to escape from what he termed the horror show called life.
Watch 'Factotum'. It ends with this nice little epitaph from him.
If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start.
This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your own mind.
It could mean not eating for three or four days.
It could mean freezing on a park bench.
It could mean jail.
It could mean derision.
It could mean mockery. Isolation.
Isolation is the gift. All the others are tests of your endurance.
Of how much you really want to do it.
And you’ll do it, despite rejection in the worst odds. And it’ll be better than anything else you can imagine.
If you’re going to try, go all the way.
There’s no other feeling like that.
You will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire.
You’ll ride life straight to perfect laughter.
It’s the only good fight there is.
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"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start.
"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start.
"If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. "
That line says it all, no details needed for me,.
thanks Sunil,
for Passion Post
Lets see what Meenakshi thinks,.
right?
:)
i don't agree again...
I'd surely try a lot of stuff,and i might not really go all the way owing to quite a lot of reasons-watever i tried was not worth more time, more toil/pain/effort;if it doesn't work even after trying my level best.
a lot of failures pave the way to sweet success (one of my philosophies to cope with failure).
But if just because i am not sure I will go all the way I don't start, i hold no chance to reach anywhere....
i hold no chance to even try getting to reach my dreams; to try making them my realities....
and anyways am no person who really wants loneliness/isolation....solitude,yes at times...but loneliness,isolation- nope not for me.
So, I'll rather start trying everything my heart wants a go at, no matter i go all the way or not.
anyways just as Shekhar, I'd like to Thank you too for a thought provoking article...however my thought processes was all about the initial lines...."Bukowski was a committed alcoholic......horor show called life".
struck me hard.
i wouldn't want my son to ever read this...not at all if he even thinks of being a writer.
lol
just hoping you guys are not taking him to be one of your role -models(at least not his habits)..
Best wishes..
Keep writing.
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