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L.A. Pontes was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, the youngest of five brothers and the son of well-educated college teachers. But for two years spent in Washington DC, which felt like a marvelous dream, he grew up in a country ruled by a military government that lasted up to the year of 1985. In 2003 he finished his Phd in Molecular Biology and three years later rediscovered his real passion; writing. He now lives with his wife and six dogs in a small piece of land in the wilderness, on the outskirts of his hometown.

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“Redemption shouldn't feel like a born need.”
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“In this world, kindness is simply not valued as sucess. So there's a lot of good people being treated like scum and a lot of bad people bing treated like gods.”
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“When you want to talk about who made me, you talk to me. Who made me is ME.”
― Muhammad Ali

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“There's the hope for the flesh
And there's the hope for the spirit
And writing is the only hope my spirit has.”
― Lupon Hill

tags: writing-soul-spirit-hope

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“Redemption shouldn't feel like a born need.”
― Lupon Hill

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“In this world, kindness is simply not valued as sucess. So there's a lot of good people being treated like scum and a lot of bad people being treated like gods.”
― Lupon Hill

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“And then there's the gun itself. No man in his right mind will play with a gun. I've seen show-offs doing fancy spins and all that. No real gun-fighter ever did. With a hair-trigger, he'd be likely to blow a hole in his belly. The gun-fighter knows enough of guns to be wary of them. He treats them with respect. A pistol was never made for anything except killing, and a gunfighter never draws a gun unless to shoot, and he shoots to kill.”
― Louis L'Amour, The Sky-Liners

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