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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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