the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … any…

Charles Bukowski
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.437, Canongate Books
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the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2012). The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993, p.437, Canongate Books

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