David Bowie (David Robert Jones) Quotes

I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

David Bowie

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• I'm English. I can't accept happiness that easily. There's got to be a trick in there somewhere.

  

  David Bowie
  • Accepting
  • Tricks