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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together.
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What has been is no more. Change has come.
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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.
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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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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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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.
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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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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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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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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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We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.
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Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.
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I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose.
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