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Naps are essential to my process. Not dreams, but that state adjacent to sleep, the mind on waking.
William Gibson
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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
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William Ford Gibson
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The past is past, the future unformed. There is only the moment, and that is where he prefers to be.
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