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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself.
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
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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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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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the worst happens when you least expect it
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
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If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
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