1. "If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives ad 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 ride life straight to perfect laughter. It’s the only good fight there is."
    Charles Bukowski
    • 5 months ago
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To those who found their way to my tumblr, hello and welcome. My name is Melissa. I'm a 22 year old college graduate working crappy jobs day and night living life and taking joy where it finds me. I'm a storyteller at my most fundamental of levels and tell them in the ways in which they should be told-sometimes in words, sometimes in drawings or painitngs, sometimes in silence. Shared here is a lot of my own personal work, along with anything that inspires the storyteller in me, things that simply take my breath away in both laughter and beauty. Enjoy the journey. Every story is heard.

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