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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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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.
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... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
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