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Some men are too dull to feel what might happen. Others torture themselves with maybes and populate their dreams with horrors more terrible than their worst enemy could inflict upon them.

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Men
Upon
Torture
Fear
Dull
Others
Horror
Happens
Dreams
Dream
Terrible
Maybes
Might
Worst
Populate
Feel
Happen
Inflict
Feels
Enemy
Horrors

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