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You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

Lee Child

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Lee Child
Age: 70
Born: 1954
Born: October 29
Author
Film Actor
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Coventry
England
UK
Jim Grant
James D. Jim Grant
Something
Rage
Scary
Step
Toward
Steps
Reflexively
Stand
Raging
Fear
Instinctively
Away
Fury

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