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[The currency of being celebrity] used to be only the elect had any manna in the information society and everyone else was a consumer.
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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There's violence in my culture [from America's South].
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Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others
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