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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.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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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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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
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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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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
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Alliteration seems to offend people.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
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No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
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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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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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