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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.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
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While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject.
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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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The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do?
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She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail.
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