“the worst thing," he told me,
"is bitterness, people end up so
bitter.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“If it's bitter at the start, then it's sweeter in the end.”
— Madonna
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