"I was alone with myself. And disgusting as I was it was better than being with somebody else, anybody else, all of them out there doing their pitiful ...

People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it.
~ Charles Bukowski ~












People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects...
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