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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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