Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and h…

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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? ✨ William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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Yeah, I said, but you're an artist. You don't believe in decency and honesty and gratitude. Where shall we eat? ✨ William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac (2009). And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, p.100, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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