I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there w…

Charles Bukowski
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect. ✨ Charles Bukowski, Friends Within The Darkness
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and love was lightning and remembrance ✨ Charles Bukowski (2009). The Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems 1946-1966, p.18, Harper Collins
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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, … ▶
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I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect. ✨ Charles Bukowski, Friends Within The Darkness

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