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“The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.”

Quote by Jan Peacock

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Limited information is available about Jan Peacock, born on November 6, 1955. His professional category is not specified. more

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