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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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Errol Flynn

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Vadim Stein

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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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onthemountain

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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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Alan Denison

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Man Ray of Lee Miller and Tanja Ramm, c. 1930