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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
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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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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
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I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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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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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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Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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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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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.
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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
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