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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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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.
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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.
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Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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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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All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart.
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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.
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