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Charles Bukowski Quotes: As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.
         

As we go on with our lives we tend to forget that the jails and the hospitals and the madhouses and the graveyards are packed.


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