“Rubin, I am not of your world. I've spent all my life in prison. When I was a child I was an orphan and too ugly to be adopted. Now I am too beautiful to be set free.”

— Charles Manson

As quoted by Jerry Rubin in recounting his visit with Manson in We Are Everywhere (1971)

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American criminal and musician 1934–2017

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