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All lives are tales. Some spread, and grow in the telling. Others are just told between us and the gods, muttered back and forth behind our days, but those tales grow too and shake us just as fierce.

Mark Lawrence

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Mark Lawrence
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: January 28
Author
Novelist
the United States of America
Days
Forth
Grows
Gods
Lives
Spread
Others
Telling
Muttered
Back
Behinds
Shake
Behind
Fierce
Grow
Shakes
Told
Tales

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