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Rather than being able to have a healthy relationship with our own sexual imagination, we're driven into some dark corners by shame and embarrassment and guilt, and those dark corners breed all sorts of monsters.

Alan Moore

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Alan Moore
Age: 70
Born: 1953
Born: November 18
Comics Artist
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