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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
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