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I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
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