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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
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Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
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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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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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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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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
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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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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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I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls.
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
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Only time conquers time and its burdens.
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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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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
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In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.
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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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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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