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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.
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