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Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.
Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.
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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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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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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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Only time conquers time and its burdens.
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People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.
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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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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong.
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.
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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
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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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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.
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She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.
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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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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances.
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him.
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