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To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
To experience real agony is something hard to write about, impossible to understand while it grips you; you're frightened out of your wits, can’t sit still, move, or even go decently insane.
Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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- Charles Bukowski
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- Approximate author period: c. 1957 AD · modern
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