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We’d sit on the porch of the tenement watching police cars whisking by and ask questions, then go wander to the food bank and the thrift store hoping to score a dollar shirt. She asked when’d things would get better. I asked the same question. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
Things remained in a type of stasis for the next couple of days, but I was bored. I wished I had a favorite Bukowski with me to read, either Women or Notes of a Dirty Old Man, which he’d been cool enough to sign for me once when I’d been over at his pad in San Pedro. I missed him. Still couldn’t believe he was gone. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
When I turned 15, my father let me drive our old ’66 Chevy Impala and I was finally able to get a “real” job – at a fast-food restaurant. Where else at that age? I never stopped working. For most of my life, I worked a good 15-20 hours a day, for years, and I made the mistake of thinking I was damn near invincible, only to eventually find out I wasn’t. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
That's why angels prefer to come here on faint ancient nights when the moon is at half-strength and the cats howl their hunger. The venom plaguing us seems miles away. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 8 months ago
You could see it in her eyes – pain made them very deep. Everything about her reeked of death – that gorgeous skin, haunted eyes, porcelain breasts – death masking a soul just marking time. People wanted to get into her. She just wanted a grave. Some wishes eventually get fulfilled. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 10 months ago
I dreamt that I could cut people in half with scissors, see into their souls and then walk with them to church or the grocery. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 10 months ago
As children, we played cowboys and Indians through the fields and forests, looking for foes as though being set upon was the worst we’d face. As children we found horseshoes, dusty hidden treasures buried in dirt, and we’d take them home and hang them on our walls alongside our Farrah and football posters. Innately we knew that someday we’d grow out of this, so mornings and afternoons we’d carry on, content, a real word in our small vocabulary. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 10 months ago
Give me Red Vines and ginger snaps, a triple cheeseburger with bacon. Give me two shots of Jack and an empty bottle on the table. Give me clubbing hard, museums by day and dancing by night, independent cinemas and theaters galore, frolicking in the ocean and jumping from planes. Give me wine, women and whiskey – that pansy afterlife junk ain’t for me. I wanna live life hard. Come on, give it to me! – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
She watched the smoke from the cigarette ooze slowly up to the ceiling, form into a nebulous cloud above her head like some miniature L.A. and then glanced at me. “Open the window, the room smells.” As I struggled with the lock, I noticed the cracks in the pane looked like so many veins in her wrist, pulsing, throbbing, making rivers of passion and death. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The street outside my window is one of a million likeminded Los Angeles streets. Taggers, homeless, families and lovers, thieves and beggars, running children and old women, churches, bars, corner stores, Spanish, Cambodian and Armenian words and accents. I want to hug my street and all within, to feel the throbbing pulse beating its steady rhythm. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Have you ever seen somebody die? It’s not like in the movies, not to me. You don’t close their peaceful eyes and pray for their soul. Rather their eyes are full of horror. People say taken in the flower of their youth, how sad yet these people get to escape a lifetime of hell and still people mourn. I laugh in honor of the dead. may they rot in peace. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
no one sees, no one hears cries of despair not very dreamlike; a sense that we’re all robots controlled by psychotic state of mind these days. Orwell wasn’t far off, just a few years. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
maybe it’s just my imagination but I can smell the stench of a decaying humanity wallowing in the throes of hypocrisy, apathy, misery and I take a DEEP breath before stepping out. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
today, suffering from drawn out hangover, the world ran dry. Bukowski died and one third of the world's winemakers will go broke. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Like long lost love abandoned in forgotten letters, you lose yourself in others, and dream their dreams, become their aspirations. When you look in the mirror, you see a black blank picture of Them staring back and you vow not to before giving in once again. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
My advisors tell me I've been poisoned and that I do it to myself, but their tongues speak only half-truths, for I was born to suffer, and that is truth incarnate. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
I'm not Christ - I can't raise the dead. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
The fact that we are still sitting on and depending on technical protocols nearly a half century old is a testament to the genius of those who invented everything from such inventions, protocols and standards like Ethernet to personal computers that were more than just circuit boards for geeks, but actually had small GUI interfaces, as well as connected devices such as a mouse and keyboard. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
They gave me killer pills that knocked me on my ass for a few hours at least so I wouldn’t have to hear the godawful screaming. I’m exhausted and my blood boils and there’s nothing I can do. There was another life that seems so long ago and I try to reconstruct images, events, people, all just dreams tethered to the knife in my soul. This is my cross, my dagger, my napalm, my dance of the dead… – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Happiness, I decided years ago, is unattainable and I don’t wish to seek it through the usual methods. Peace is a reflection of our souls, leaving me a non-entity. I cry because people want to feel and I join them in their fears and private agonies and I wish for death and pray for life and hope to God that God even gives a shit and before I die and receive my judgment I just want to help 1 person FEEL, to know what it is to be alive and to ease their suffering as only a tormented soul can. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
Counting sheep no longer works. The day comes crashing down on you and you can’t escape it. You go home, have two shots of Jack, look through the bills, fix yourself a TV dinner, watch the Lakers lose another one, take a bath, think briefly of cutting your wrists knowing you don't have the guts to do it, and you go to bed. So much for the sheep. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
i haven’t succeeded, the world will not burst into flames at my death, puppies will not be named after me – i have no staying power. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
nighttime, the pain returns rippling mind effects disunity lust objects found like shower breeze crashing down on a beaten psyche; disjointed love turns evil with the night – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago
My playing fields were comprised of a black and white universe – cold/hot, light/dark, heaven/hell, right/wrong – this, my guide, my birthright. Something was buried in the back of my soul – the signs were all there but no one knew, no one could tell so when I eventually went over the edge, it was meant to be a lesson learned. – Scott C. Holstad Famous Quote	added 1 year ago

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