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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
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When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
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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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My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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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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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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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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The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
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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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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent, said Dusty. But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person. Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal?
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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, -or let blood fall on a suicide knife.
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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
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There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
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