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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.
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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.
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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
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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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No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.
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In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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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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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.
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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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That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
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