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I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols. The reader reads into them something worse than what you normally would have. They work as this outburst of incoherent anger. I've found ways to write around swearing that are much more effective, rather than going for what someone really would say.

Daniel Clowes

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Daniel Clowes
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: April 14
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