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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

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