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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
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Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
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Owen West
Richard Paige
Every
Digital
Time
Clock
Towards
Implosion
Piece
Blinks
Pieces
Shears
Literature
Trimming
Away
Scrap
Hands
Blink

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