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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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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night.
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Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
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Only time conquers time and its burdens.
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
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To a predator, fear indicates weakness.
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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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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
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