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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.
Jonathan Maberry
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Jonathan Maberry
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: May 18
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Science Fiction Writer
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Kensington
Philadelphia
Shane MacDougall
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