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You know you're in trouble when your own imagination starts punishing you.

Eoin Colfer

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Eoin Colfer
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: May 14
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Wexford
Punishing
Starts
Trouble
Imagination

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