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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
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I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed.
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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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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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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
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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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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
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That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.
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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
Dean Koontz
If I waited until I felt creative, I would never have had a career. I long ago learned that a day that starts out badly, when nothing comes out on the page or comes out wrong, can suddenly turn into a good day a few hours later, when suddenly everything starts to click. The brain can be cajoled into being creative.
Dean Koontz
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.
Dean Koontz
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.
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While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.
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We live in God's amusement park.
Dean Koontz
