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I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.
Harlan Coben
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Harlan Coben
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 4
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This was a place where tattoos outnumbered teeth.
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In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.
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In short, the satisfaction of creating, not necessarily the process, always lifts my heart.
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Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.
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