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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
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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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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird.
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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
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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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The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
Dean Koontz
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
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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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Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
Dean Koontz
The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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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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