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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
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Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
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... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
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I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental.
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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Reality isn't what it used to be.
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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
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