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Life, he thought, is a blatant act of imagination.
Jess Walter
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Jess Walter
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: July 20
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Spokane
Washington
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I quickly decided my zombies weren't really zombies. It was instead something you called people who were on this club drug, who then exhibited aggressive behaviors. And then like everyone who writes about zombies, I found it was so much fun.
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There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant — sail for Asia and stumble on America — and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.
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