“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Source: The Golden Lily
“I will put on my shoes and shirt
and get out of here - it'll
be better for
all of us.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems, 1946-1966
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
"I'd Love To Be A Fairy's Child".
Fairies and Fusiliers (1917)
“"When did you get that?"
"The shirt? At Macy's. Winter sale."”
Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments
Imogen and Jace, pg. 390
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)
“Mediocrity is like a spot on your shirt, it never comes off.”
Haruki Murakami book Dance Dance Dance
Dance, Dance, Dance
Source: Dance Dance Dance
“Percy looked at his friends. “I’m getting tired of this guy’s shirt.”
Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena
Source: The Mark of Athena
“Why do guys get to take off their shirts and we don't?”
Courtney Love (1964) American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist
Phoenix Theatre, Toronto, Ontario; September 1, 1994
Stage banter
Caitlín R. Kiernan (1964) writer
"Would you like to see a little of it?" said the Mock Turtle. (3 April 2010)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2010
Context: Could anything be more inimical to art than a fear of emotion, or a fear of "excessive" emotion, or a reluctance to express emotion around others? No, of course not. Art can even best the weights of utter fucking ignorance and totalitarian repression, but it cannot survive emotional constipation.
I want a T-shirt that says, "Art is Emo." We live in an age where people are more apt to believe a thing if they read it on a T-shirt.