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It’s easier to be a character in a story than the star of your own tragedy.

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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
Author
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
Star
Easier
Stars
Story
Stories
Character
Tragedy

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He knew that these creatures were dead, that they were reanimated echoes who wore the disguise of the people they had once been, but Tom's words rang in his mind. They used to be people. How could he strike them? How could he hurt them? Children, women, old people. Lost souls.
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She wept for the hurt that he owned, a hurt she could never hope to remove.
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Everyone carries around his own monsters.---Richard Pryor
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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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