I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot…

Charles Bukowski
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I wasn't sleeping on the streets at night. Of course, there were a lot of good people sleeping in the streets. They weren't fools, they just didn't fit into the needed machinery of the moment. And those needs kept altering.
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