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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day the average is probably three pages.
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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
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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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A good dog is one of the best things of all to be.
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One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.
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Intuition is seeing with the soul.
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
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I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
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