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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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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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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.
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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.
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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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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.
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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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