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I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

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Henry Rollins
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 13
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