often it is the only / thing / between you and impossibility / no drink / no woman's love / no wealth/ can / match it / nothing can save you/ except writing.
Charles Bukowski
Friday, March 4, 2011
Gustavo Perez Firmat
The fact that I am writing to you in English already falsifies what I wanted to tell you. My subject: how to explain to you that I don't belong to English though I belong nowhere else.
I love this. I don't know where I first read it but it was while I was living in the Apt in Hudson and had just started reading latin American lit.
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