Charles Bukowski: That was all a man needed: hope . It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.

That was all a man needed: hope . It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man. — Charles Bukowski

That was all a man needed: hope . It was a lack of hope that discouraged a man.

Charles Bukowski

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