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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

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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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
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Duty doesn't need to call it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.
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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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...at it's best fiction is medicine.
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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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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
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On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.
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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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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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