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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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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.
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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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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
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What has been is no more. Change has come.
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My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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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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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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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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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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