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If ignorance were enough to make things not exist, the world would be more like a lot of people think it is. But it's not. And it's not.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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