#lame

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives and maybe even your 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 a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And, you'll do it, despite rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#flame #isolation #laughter #loss #sacrifice

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#lame #religion #science #without

Talent is a flame. Genius is a fire. ↗

— Bern Williams

#flame #genius #talent

How can I impress strangers with the gem-like flame of my literary passion if it's a digital slate I'm carrying around, trying not to get it all thumbprinty? ↗

— James Wolcott

#carrying #digital #flame #get #how

Blame someone else and get on with your life. ↗

— Alan Woods

#else #get #life #someone #your

The sad souls of those who lived without blame and without praise. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#lived #praise #sad #souls #those

To be fair, Republicans are not blameless. The deficit began to spiral out of control on President Bush's watch. ↗

— Rob Woodall

#blameless #bush #control #deficit #fair

It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but the failed policies of Kim Jong Il. ↗

— John Bolton

#deprivation #disasters #failed #failed policies #kim

Blame is just a lazy person's way of making sense of chaos. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#chaos #just #lazy #making #person

I would watch Gonzalez play and he mesmerized you. It would be like looking into the flame of a fire. You know you couldn't take your eyes off him because you never knew what he would do next. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#eyes #fire #flame #him #i