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Dean Koontz é um escritor dos Estados Unidos da América.

Nasceu na Pensilvânia e estudou no Shippenburg State College. Antes de dedicar-se à literatura trabalhou como instrutor de meninos problemáticos e como professor de inglês.

Suas obras foram traduzidas em todo mundo, com mais de duzentos milhões de exemplares vendidos; várias delas foram levadas a tela. Suas novelas figuram invariavelmente nos primeiros postos dos livros mais vendidos. Na atualidade vive no sul de Califórnia.

Algumas de suas obras: A Casa do Mal, Esconderijo, Fantasmas, Fogo Frio, O Guardião, Intrusos, Meia Noite entre várias outras, que exploram desde o gênero policial, até o horror macabro. Em outubro de 2010 a Editora prumo lançou no Brasil o primeiro livro da trilogia Frankenstein, e lançou o segundo em 2011.

✵ 9. Julho 1945  •  Outros nomes دین کونتز
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Dean Koontz: Frases em inglês

“Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.”

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Dean Koontz livro Your Heart Belongs to Me

Fonte: Your Heart Belongs to Me

“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet”

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Dean Koontz livro From the Corner of His Eye

Fonte: From the Corner of His Eye

“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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“… in an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.”

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Dean Koontz livro Dead and Alive

Fonte: Dead and Alive

“Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.”

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Dean Koontz livro Forever Odd

Fonte: Forever Odd

“Now take my hand and hold it tight.
I will not fail you here tonight,
For failing you, I fail myself
And place my soul upon a shelf
In Hell's library without light.
I will not fail you here tonight.”

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Fonte: The Book Of Counted Sorrows

“In this world only the paranoid survive.”

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Dean Koontz livro Midnight

Fonte: Midnight

“Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

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Dean Koontz livro One Door Away from Heaven

Fonte: One Door Away from Heaven

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

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Dean Koontz livro One Door Away from Heaven

Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Fonte: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Contexto: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

“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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Dean Koontz livro Forever Odd

Fonte: Forever Odd

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Variante: .. the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
Fonte: Odd Thomas

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

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Dean Koontz livro Strange Highways

Fonte: Strange Highways

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”

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Dean Koontz livro Dead and Alive

Fonte: Dead and Alive

“A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.”

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Dean Koontz livro Velocity

Fonte: Velocity

“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“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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Fonte: Winter Moon

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

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Fonte: Innocence

“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”

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Dean Koontz livro Odd Hours

Fonte: Odd Hours

“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”

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“Alliteration seems to offend people.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.”

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Dean Koontz livro Intensity

Fonte: Intensity

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