“One man is as good as another until he has written a book.”
Benjamin Jowett (1817–1893) Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
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“I think of Neuromancer as being, in a good sense, an adolescent book. It's a young man's book. It was written very young-man's-book. It was written by a man who was not very young, when he wrote it, but who was sufficiently immature.”
No Maps for These Territories (2000)
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