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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.
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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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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 destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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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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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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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible.
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered?
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society.
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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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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.
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In the end, it's all about perseverance.
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