Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, a…

Charles Bukowski
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Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . ✨ Charles Bukowski (1978). Women
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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.
The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless. ✨ Char … ▶
That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.
The trouble with a mask is it never changes ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.3, Canongate Books
To be young is the only religion. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2013). Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p.35, City Lights Books

Your writing, she said to me, it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . . ✨ Charles Bukowski (1978). Women

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