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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.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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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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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
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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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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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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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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow.
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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We live in God's amusement park.
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The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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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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Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
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