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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
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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