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“He was impressed with his father's fiction and noticed certain stylistic tics that he shared, and figured it was genetic. Why would genes determine only physical traits, eye color and left-handedness? Why not other, more subtle, bodiless proclivities such as a love of the semicolon and a propensity to string modifying clauses ad infinitum?”

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David Duchovny, born on August 7, 1960, is an accomplished actor from the United States. He gained widespread recognition for his role as Fox Mulder in the television series 'The X-Files', which made him one of the most iconic television stars of the 1990s. Beyond his acting career, Duchovny has also ventured into writing, publishing two novels. more

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