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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
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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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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.
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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.
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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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