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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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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.
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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.
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Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?
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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.
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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.
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The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.
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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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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 broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster.
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith.
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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.
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Intuition is seeing with the soul.
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.
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