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Fiction is overrated, Fly. We__e discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that__ what counts.
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Fiction is overrated, Fly. We__e discussed this. In the time it takes those novelist fuckers to contemplate a few poetic passages, a thousand kids die from malnutrition. Immediacy, man, that__ what counts.
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