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She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.
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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
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Reality isn't what it used to be.
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate it befalls us at our invitation.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s.
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
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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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I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.
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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
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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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... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.
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A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse
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Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
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Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.
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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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