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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
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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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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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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
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