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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
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Reality isn't what it used to be.
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