When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it di…

Charles Bukowski
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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.
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When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn’t have you by the throat. ✨ Factotum. Book by Charles Bukowski (Chapter 31), 1975.

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