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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog God is in the details.
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The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
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