2018.1.19《Try and Try Hard》

Try and Try Hard

--Charles Bukowski

If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start.

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 three or four days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision, 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.

查尔斯·布可夫斯基(Charles Bukowski),一位非常高产的诗人、作家，总计出版了110本书。因其作品关注社会底层人民生活，被誉为“贫民窟的桂冠诗人”。