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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.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.
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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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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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