Cruelty, rage, grief — and something others carelessly name… - Nick Drake

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Cruelty, rage, grief — and something others carelessly name evil — can reduce the strange collation of profanity and beauty which makes up each of us to an inanimate lump of decaying meat.

Nick Drake

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Nick Drake (born in 1961 London) is a British poet and mystery writer.

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Cruelty, rage, grief — and something others carelessly name evil — can reduce the strange collation of profanity and beauty which makes up each of us… - Nick Drake

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