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People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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Alliteration seems to offend people.
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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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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
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The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.
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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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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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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original.
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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