Beerspit Night and Cursing Quotes

“The difference between being subtle and abstract is the difference between knowing and saying it in a gentler way and not knowing and saying it in a way that will let you off the hook. To be abstract with the word is all right if you use it like paint and seek the pure word, but it is difficult, in the language, to have near purity without near meaning.”
― Charles Bukowski, Beerspit Night and Cursing: The Correspondence of Charles Bukowski and Sheri Martinelli 1960–1967