I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add …

Charles Bukowski
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I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2013). Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p.48, City Lights Books
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I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off. ✨ Charles Bukowski (2013). Notes of a Dirty Old Man, p.48, City Lights Books

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