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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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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
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