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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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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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Living in the modern age, death for virtue is the wage. So it seems in darker hours. Evil wins, kindness cowers. Ruled by violence and vice we all stand upon thin ice. Are we brave or are we mice, here upon such thin, thin ice? Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
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You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices.
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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled.
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We live in God's amusement park.
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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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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Never, never try to scope the market.
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
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Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.
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