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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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