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Charles Bukowski Quotes

You're afraid of the audience, aren't you?"Yes, but it's not stagefright. It's that I'm there as the geek. They like to watch me eat my shit. But it pays the light bill and takes me to the racetrack. I don't have any excuses about why I do it.

Charles Bukowski

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