“writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Desperate psychotic people do desperate psychotic things when they’re exposed. I refuse to grant them immunity from exposure out of fear of their reaction. When you do, the desperate psychos wind up in charge.”
Source: Caliban's War (2012), Chapter 42 (p. 463)
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