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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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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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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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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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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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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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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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Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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