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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
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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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I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.
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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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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
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Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.
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I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp.
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