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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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It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.
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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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What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.
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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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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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... one of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret.
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The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
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But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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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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I don't write a quick draft and then revise instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
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If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.
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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
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