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" Five thousand Don Hecks are not worth one Neal Adams. "
Harlan Ellison
Worth
Five
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" Success is to bring into existence, in adult terms, your childhood dreams. "
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" People keep saying that books will never die out. Well, books may never die out, but hundreds of thousands of individual writers will, and for them, it's as if books did die out. "
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Universe
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