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" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "
Dean Koontz
Politics
Life
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" Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. "
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" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "
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" If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. "
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" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "
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" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "
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" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "
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" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "
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" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "
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" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "
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" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "
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" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "
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" I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. "
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" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "
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" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "
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Wish
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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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" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "
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Most
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" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "
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Sometimes
Than
" I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. "
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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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Equal
" I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "
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Think
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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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" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "
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" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "
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" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "
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" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "
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" In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. "
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" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "
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" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "
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" Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. "
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