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My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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Culture is just a shambling zombie that repeats what it did in life bits of it drop off, and it doesn't appear to notice.
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Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers, down it goes.
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