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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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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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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
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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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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
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People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
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The human imagination may be the most elastic thing in the universe, stretching to encompass the millions of dreams that in centuries of relectless struggle built modern civilization, to entertain the endless doubts that hamper every human enterprise, and to conceive the vast menagerie of boogeymen that trouble every human heart.
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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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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
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My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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None of us can ever save himself we are the instruments of one another’s salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light.
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
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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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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks.
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Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
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Every eye sees its own special vision every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong.
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