We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in th…

Charles Bukowski
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2013). Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p.48, City Lights Books
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We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2013). Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p.48, City Lights Books

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