"Have you ever been beaten with a razor strop three times a week from the age of 6 to 11? Do you know how many beatings that is? So you see this was very good literary training for me. Beating me with that strop taught me something."

(What did it teach you?)

"How to type."

(What's the link?)

"The link is: when you get the shit kicked out of you long enough and long enough and long enough, you will have the tendency to say what you really mean. In other words, you have all the pretense beat out of you. My father was a great literary teacher. He taught me the meaning of pain. Pain without reason."

—Charles Bukowski, from the documentary film "Born Into This" (2003)

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