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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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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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Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
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Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
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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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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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the worst happens when you least expect it
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
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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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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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Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
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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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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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