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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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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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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
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The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
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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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There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over everyday, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and affecting that the heart is nearly stilled in astonishment.
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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.
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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
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To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate it befalls us at our invitation.
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Every eye sees its own special vision every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.
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