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In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
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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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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.
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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
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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 just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It’s not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it’s that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don’t see what you wish to see—or glimpse something that you wish weren’t there.
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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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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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