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What were you going to do tonight? I was going to listen to the songs of Rachmaninoff. Who's that? A dead Russian.
Charles Bukowski
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Charles Bukowski
Age: 73 †
Born: 1920
Born: August 16
Died: 1994
Died: March 9
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