“In fact I am such a nonentity by the standards of our culture that People magazine not only will never feature a piece about me but might also reject my attempts to subscribe to their publication on the grounds that the black-hole gravity of my noncelebrity is powerful enough to suck their entire enterprise into oblivion.”

—  Dean Koontz , Odd Thomas

Source: Odd Thomas (2003), Chapter 1; Odd Thomas's introduction

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