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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.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
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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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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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He once told me that an August evening was as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart, a comparison that left me blinking two days later.
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The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
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No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
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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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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
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