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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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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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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 we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die.
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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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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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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
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... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
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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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Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.
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If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.
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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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The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
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What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.
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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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