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Malcolm Lowry Quotes: How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?
         

How, unless you drink as I do, could you hope to understand the beauty of an old Indian woman playing dominoes with a chicken?


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