my father always said, “early to bed and
early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy
and wise.”
it was lights out at 8 p.m. in our house
and we were up at dawn to the smell of
coffee, frying bacon and scrambled
eggs.
my father followed this general routine
for a lifetime and died young, broke,
and, I think, not too
wise.
taking note, I rejected his advice and it
became, for me, late to bed and late
to rise.
now, I’m not saying that I’ve conquered
the world but I’ve avoided
numberless early traffic jams, bypassed some
common pitfalls
and have met some strange, wonderful
people
one of whom
was
myself—someone my father
never
knew.
—Charles Bukowski, Throwing Away the Alarm Clock
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Ernest Hemingway and Lauren Bacall at a cafe in Malaga, Spain (probably) in 1959.
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Albert Camus and his cat, Cigarette
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There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.
—John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
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Rodin's Le Penseur (1904) and a woman wispering. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg. Unknown photographer or date
src Strassen-Verlauf
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Margaux & Mariel Hemingway by Francesco Scavullo.
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Marlene Dietrich photographed by Milton H. Greene, 1952
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Flowers by Salvador Dalí, 1946
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Man Ray of Lee Miller and Tanja Ramm, c. 1930
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