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February 10, 1971

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Penfist was born in 1971 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. He spent his formative years in diverse places including Haiti, Bangladesh, Canada and the United States. Before Penfist became an author, he spent time in mundane jobs including dishwasher, data entry operator, marketing manager, public affairs chief, information technology administrator, IT director and systems architect. Penfist holds a Master of Science in Management of Information Systems with a focus on security. He has served tours of duty in the United States Marine Corps and the United States Army, and has spent time in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is currently working on a graduate degree in English and Creative Writing. Penfist is a deist, an agnostic, a transhumanist and a ...more

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“Nothing is ever over when it is alive inside a human heart. You'll always be an echo in my words.”
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“The best writing takes you places you don't want to go. It drags you by the hair against your will and leaves you drained, shaky, spent. Sometimes with a bad taste in your mouth.”
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“Believing in yourself when no one else does is lonely. Surround yourself with people who believe in you. The alternative is eventual insanity.”
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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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“Believing in yourself when no one else does is lonely. Surround yourself with people who believe in you. The alternative is eventual insanity.”
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“In fact, researchers have settled on what they believe is the magic number for true expertise: ten thousand hours.”
― Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

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“There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.”
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