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... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
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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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Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind.
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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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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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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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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