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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

“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”

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Dean Koontz livro Forever Odd

Fonte: Forever Odd

“But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity.”

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Dean Koontz livro Intensity

Fonte: Intensity

“Sorrow is not a raven perched persistently above a chamber door. Sorrow is a thing with teeth, and while in time it retreats, it comes back at the whisper of it's name.”

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“It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.”

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Dean Koontz livro Lightning

Fonte: Lightning

“I'm no more a wonder than anyone. And that's what makes the world magical. Every baby's a seed of wonder - that gets watered or it doesn't.”

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Dean Koontz livro Relentless

Fonte: Relentless

“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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Dean Koontz livro Odd Hours

Fonte: Odd Hours

“The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.”

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Dean Koontz livro One Door Away from Heaven

Fonte: One Door Away from Heaven

“Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“I've since discovered that many human beings need no supernatural mentoring to commit acts of savagery; some people are devils in their own right, their telltale horns having grown inward to facilitate their disguise.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”

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Fonte: Odd Interlude: A Special Odd Thomas Adventure

“What sucks the worst is… this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.”

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Dean Koontz livro Forever Odd

Fonte: Forever Odd

“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”

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Dean Koontz livro The Good Guy

Fonte: The Good Guy

“Listen, child—if you’re at a party with a hundred people and one of them is the devil, he’ll be the last one you’d suspect.”

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Dean Koontz livro Deeply Odd

Fonte: Deeply Odd

“The primitive in each of us climbs closer to the surface during the night, for the moon sings to it, and the cold void between the stars speaks its language. To that savage self, evil can look lovely in too little light.”

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Dean Koontz livro False Memory

Fonte: False Memory

“In this age, lies were the universal lubricant of the culture. A love of Truth and commitment to it were seldom rewarded and were often punished.”

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Dean Koontz livro Breathless

Fonte: Breathless

“What has been is no more. Change has come.”

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Dean Koontz livro Dead and Alive

Fonte: Dead and Alive

“Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas

“Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.”

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Dean Koontz livro Your Heart Belongs to Me

Fonte: Your Heart Belongs to Me

“Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.”

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Fonte: Innocence

“Your past is my Future.”

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Dean Koontz livro Lightning

Lightning

“Live you can evade; death you cannot.”

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Dean Koontz livro Brother Odd

Brother Odd

“Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.”

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Dean Koontz livro Odd Apocalypse

Odd Apocalypse

“Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Fonte: Odd Thomas (2003), Chapter 34; observation of Odd Thomas

“Evidently, Ted had walked down the block from his own house and entered with the intention of fixing something. Now Ted was broken, too, and beyond repair.”

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Dean Koontz livro Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.7; about the death of Travis's landlord, Ted Hockney
Watchers (1987)

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