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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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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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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse
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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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