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It's important to know the past, but your survival depends on knowing the present.

Jonathan Maberry

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
Survival
Depends
Present
Knowing
Past
Important

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But sometimes shame is a more powerful engine than rage. Like rage, it burns hot and like rage it tends to consume its own furnace.
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How do you know that? Because,Chong said with raised eyebrows,when you open those things called 'books',there are words as well as pictures.Sometimes the words tell you stuff.
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Suddenly all those careful preparations disintegrated as predators far more dangerous than the walking dead proved what all wise killers already knew: that nothing was more dangerous than living men.
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Walls, towns, rules, and day-to-day life doesn't make us civilized ... That's organization and ritual. Civilization lives in our hearts and heads or it doesn't exist at all.
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Courage is tricky, oily. Easy to drop, easy to misplace. I thought that if you had courage you always had it.. . . Lilah, nothing is always there. Not courage, not joy, not hate or hope or anything else. We find courage, lose it, sometimes misplace it for years, and sometimes live in its grace for a while.
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Chong said, 'Do yourself a favor, Morg. Next time you're staring at a girl's boobs, look up. You'll be shocked to learn it, but there's going to be a face up there. Nose, mouth, eyes. And behind the eyes is an actual person.
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Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.
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We're each alone inside our heads, some more so than others.
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Yo! Deadheads, he yelled, waving his sword to taunt them. Nice try, but you're messing with Benny-freaking-Imura, zombie killer. Booyah!
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I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how much I might want it to be something else.
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