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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.
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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
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I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.
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I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
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In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.
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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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