“I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
Source: The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“John Carey, who had once buried The Metropolitan Critic, hailed Unreliable Memoirs as the written equivalent of sliced bread. Instantly I revised my opinion of his critical prowess upwards.”
On John Carey, p. 241
Memoirs, North Face of Soho (2006)
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"Food for Thought and Vice Versa" (p. 109).
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“Who's ever heard of a singer criticized by his song?”
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