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What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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