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Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Everett
Pennsylvania
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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Houses are not haunted. We are haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves, our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts.
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His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
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One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
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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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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
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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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