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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.
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What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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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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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
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I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.
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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
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