I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of th…

Charles Bukowski
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I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2003). Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993
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