Quotes About Challenge

What's the easiest fucking thing to take?" I asked him. "Journalism. Those journalism majors don't do anything." "O.K., I'll be a journalist.

On blue jean day everybody in town was supposed to wear blue jeans or get thrown in the lake. I put on my only suit and necktie and slowly, like Billy the Kid, with all eyes on me, I walked slowly through the town, looking in windows, stopping for cigars. I broke that town in half like a wooden match.

Most so-called brave people lack imagination. As though they can't conceive of what would happen if something went wrong. The truly brave overcome their imagination and do what they have to do. 2

what matter most is how well you walk trough fire.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.

roll the dice if you're going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don't get into it. if you're going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, alcoholism, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation.

Scrivere poesie non è difficile. Difficile è viverle.

tu figlio di puttana, disse lei, sto cercando di costruire una relazione che abbia senso. non puoi costruirla con un martello, disse lui

sometimes a man must fight so hard for life that he doesn't have time to live it.

There is really nothing you can do easily: live or die or accept fame or money or defeat, it's all hard.

you chippy hunk of shit,/don't bad mouth me! I'm/the toughest guy in town, you don't know/who the hell you're in this room/with!

Maldita sea, parecía imposible que perdiéramos, pero perdimos.

too much acceptance destroys. so listen, my fine fellows and ladies, I am going to ignore your late applause, I intend to still play it loose, commit my errors, enrage the entrenched and piss upon your guardians, angels and / or devils. I intend to do what I have to do, what I have always done. it's been too much fun to falter now.  you will not escape my iron grip and I will escape yours.

Life is and is not a gentle bore.

the Definition of Life is Trouble.

He had nothing, and he found out that having nothing was difficult too.

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

Writing poems is not difficult, living them is.

Remember what the pros say, "If you've got to lose, lose in front.

hell is built piece by piece brick by brick around you.

A number of men tried to catch her eye, but she walked close by my side, holding my arm. Few beautiful women were willing to indicate in public that they belonged to someone. I had known enough women to realize this. I accepted them for what they were, and love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons. One simply became tired of holding love back and let it go because it needed some place to go. Then usually, there was trouble.

My spoon was bent so that if I wanted to eat I had to pick the spoon up with my right hand. If I picked it up with my left hand, the spoon bent away from my mouth. I wanted to pick the spoon up with my left hand.

What foolishness makes us tweak the nose of Death continually?

The back was something the assholes had never figured out how to amputate.