Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. (Alan Moore)

Life isn't divided into genres. It's a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel.

Alan Moore

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