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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

Dean Koontz

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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I have more self-doubt than any writer I've ever known.... The positive aspect of self-doubt - if you can channel it into useful activity instead of being paralyzed by it - is that by the time you reach the end of a novel, you know precisely why you made every decision in the narrative, the multiple purposes of every metaphor and image.
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... and she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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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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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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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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Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.
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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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