“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short-story writer known for his raw depictions of working-class Los Angeles life in books like Post Office and Ham on Rye.

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