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In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.
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Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.
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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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Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.
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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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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
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Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.
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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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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
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Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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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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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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