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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
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The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.
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...at it's best fiction is medicine.
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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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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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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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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.
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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
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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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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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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.
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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.
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Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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We live in God's amusement park.
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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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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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