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There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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