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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate it befalls us at our invitation.
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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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.
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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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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.
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