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A Goodreads user asked Alan Moore:

Do you believe knowing that you're living inside of a horror story makes it easier to live there?

Alan Moore It’s really only fictional people that live in horror stories. Real people, even if they’ve been the subject of special rendition and are currently receiving electric shocks to their genitals somewhere in Egypt, are not in a horror story: they are in the same ordinary reality as you and I, which we are all a part of and which we all, by our actions and inactions, help to create. I think it would be best if we agreed that we are living in the real world, and if at times it reads like a horror story – or worse – then we are the only authors, and we are the only authority that is in a position t fix or change that.

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my 14yr old has a darker side when it comes to life + occasional depression, a sweetheart/gentle soul hidden in a trenchcoat, very intelligent but he's the villain/orc/troll/demon god in games, the bully to the school bullies, sketching darkness & he devours books (yours, dune, g rr martin, pratchett, peter v brett)..we're americans in france any advice on being yourself in a world that says you don't fit in?

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