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The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
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Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
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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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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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She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
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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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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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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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If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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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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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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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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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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After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.
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