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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.

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Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.
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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
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Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.
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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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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there.
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.
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