"...the best writers are the ones who were on the sidelines during their youth, observers, not fawned-over popular doers. Not the prom king and queen, not the quarterback throwing the winning pass at the big game, but the timid or the brutish losers and outcasts who spent their high school years invisible or shunned."

~ Paul Clayton

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"That was certainly Bukowski, who went to his high school the night of the prom and hid in the bushes to watch through the windows as the ‘little ladies and gentlemen’ sipped punch and danced — before he was run off by the night watchman."

~ Paul Clayton

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