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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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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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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.
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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
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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.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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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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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
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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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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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