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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.
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Only the human spirit can act with volition and consciously change itself it is the only thing in all creation that is not entirely at the mercy of forces outside itself.
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Time doesn’t, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense.
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One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.
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Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog God is in the details.
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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.
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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way.
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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way.
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
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Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.
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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.
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Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.
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The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.
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