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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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Language comes first. It's not that language grows out of consciousness, if you haven't got language, you can't be conscious.
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Looked at sky through smoke heavy with human fat and God was not there. The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later. Born from oblivion bear children, hell-bound as ourselves, go into oblivion. There is nothing else.
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Never despair. Never surrender.
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Nothing is insoluble. Nothing is hopeless. Not while there's life.
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