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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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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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All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.
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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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No one can tell you what your heart should feel.
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes.
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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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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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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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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.
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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.
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