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In my position I simply can’t afford pangs of conscience. Fortunately, they fade the more power one acquires. It’s an entirely natural process.

— Walter Moers The City of Dreaming Books (2004)

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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that’s all.

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It symbolizes the three components of power: power, power and power.

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