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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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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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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.
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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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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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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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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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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
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If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.
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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.
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