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Behind this mask there is more than just flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea... and ideas are bulletproof.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 71
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
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My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot.
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