Simon Carmiggelt

I want to be Simon Carmiggelt when I grow up. The prophet Carmiggelt was a local patron journalist saint who filtered bar tales into gentle life lessons and into a very nice living thank you very much… He once said that going out to a bar for one drink was like jumping off a roof with the plan of falling only one floor.

You can also watch the classic Dutch documentary, which he wrote and narrated, Alleman here.

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