“Some people have written that my writing has helped them go on.
It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”

— Charles Bukowski

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

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It has helped me too. The writing, the roses, the 9 cats.”