They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuali…

Charles Bukowski
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They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2010). Absence of the Hero: Uncollected Stories and Essays, Vol. 2: 1946-1992, City Lights Publishers
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