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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.
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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.
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What has been is no more. Change has come.
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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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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. 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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Alliteration seems to offend people.
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
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Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn -or answer the call of Death's dark horn. Without a gleaning of purpose in life, we have no vision, we live in strife, -or let blood fall on a suicide knife.
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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
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A silent dark...as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more.
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...he was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared.
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.
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There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
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What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end.
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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
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