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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
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Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.
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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
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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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I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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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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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.
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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
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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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Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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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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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
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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.
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What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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