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This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Science Fiction Writer
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The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
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Then Jix locked eyes with him and said very calmly, If you hit her, I will open my mouth wide enough to swallow you whole, force you through my bowels, then out my other end. Avalon scowled at him. You can't do that. Try me, Jix said. Avalon backed off, then angrily stormed away, and Jix winked at Jill. One in five.
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The way I see it, the impossible happens all the time but we're so good at taking it for granted, we forget it was once impossible.
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Why are you still with me, Fry? CyFi asks after one of his body-shaking seizures. Any sane dude woulda taken off days ago. Who says I'm sane? Oh, you're sane, Fry. You're so sane, you scare me. You're so sane, it's insane.
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