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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
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No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
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