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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Dean Ray Koontz
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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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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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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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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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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Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic.
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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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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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
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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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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.
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Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.
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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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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.
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