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Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.

Neal Shusterman

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Neal Shusterman
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Author
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Brooklyn
New York
Hope
Cannot
Battered
Even
Bruised
Rendered
Underground
Forced
Unconscious
Killed

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