Famous Last Words

— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via books-n-quotes)

“Tough times never last, but tough people do.” - Dr. Robert Schuller

— Monica Drake, Clown Girl (via books-n-quotes)

Woodward Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, 1943

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“I remember growing up At night my dad would sit in the kitchen with all the lights out And he’d be waiting for me to come in And he’d sit here and drink and I stand in the driveway and I look into the screen door And I could see the light of his cigarette And then I’d rush up on the porch, trying to get by him but he would always call me back And it was like he was always angry, always mad And he was sitting thinking about everything that he wasn’t ever gonna have until he get me thinking like that too And I’d lay on my bed at night just staring at the ceiling and feel like if something didn’t happen… Or something didn’t happen soon… I felt like I was just gonna… Like someday… Like I was just gonna… Damn”

— Bruce Springsteen, 1985

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