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“Most of the people that others avoid have got some pretty wild stories and nuggets of information, they just don’t know how to express it right.” Says Louie Jenkins
“I took a book on my American trip and wrote loads of shit down – jokes, names and addresses.”
“It makes you think that sometimes people are such big characters that it crushes them into the weird creatures that they are.”
“If I get rich I’ll take photos of roulette tables and high-class whores, but I guess for now I’ll continue with pictures of people. ”
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