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Dean Ray Koontz, né le 9 juillet 1945 à Everett, en Pennsylvanie, est un romancier et nouvelliste américain, auteur de best-sellers appartenant le plus souvent aux genres populaires du suspense, de l'horreur et de la science-fiction. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. juillet 1945   •   Autres noms دین کونتز
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Dean Koontz: Citations en anglais

“Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.”

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Dean Koontz livre Midnight

Harry Talbot; Part II, chapter 29, p. 287 [Koontz, Dean, w:Dean Koontz, Midnight, 1st edition, 1989, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, ISBN 0-399-13390-9, 383 pages]
Midnight (1989)

“"Fear is a hammer, and when the people are beaten finally to the conviction that their existence hangs by a frayed thread, they will be led where they need to go."
"Which is where?"
"To a responsible future in a properly managed world."”

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Dean Koontz livre The Good Guy

Conversation between Wentworth and Timothy Carrier
Chapter 63, p. 368
The Good Guy (2007)

“He considered himself to be a thoroughly useless man, taking up space in a world to which he contributed nothing — but he did have a talent for baking… The gas oven might blow up in his face, at last bringing him peace, but if it didn't, he would at least have cookies for Agnes.”

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Dean Koontz livre From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 27; on Agnes' shut-in brother Jacob

“He's a hollow man. He believes in anything. Hollow men are vulnerable to anyone who offers them something that might fill the void and make them feel less empty.”

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Dean Koontz livre From the Corner of His Eye

Source: From the Corner of His Eye (2000), Chapter 64; words of former policeman Thomas Vanadium

“Dr. Bob managed so successfully to turn the answer to every question into a mini-lecture on self-esteem and positive thinking, that Ethan wanted Hazard to arrest him on charges of Felony Cliché and Practicing Philosophy Without An Idea.”

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Dean Koontz livre The Face

Source: The Face (2003), Chapter 67; Ethan and Hazard's questioning of a pop-psychology university professor

“It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.”

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Dean Koontz livre Watchers

Part 1, Chapter 7.5; Nora's comment on her changes since meeting Travis
Watchers (1987)

“She said, "Love isn't enough. Your parents have to know how to relate to you, and to each other. They have to want to be with you more than with anyone else. They have to love being home more than anywhere in the world, and they have to be more interested in you than in…"
"Snakes and tornadoes," I suggested.
"God, I love them. They're nice, Jimmy, they really are, and they mean well. But they live inside themselves more than not, and they keep their doors closed. You see them mostly through windows."”

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Dean Koontz livre Life Expectancy

Source: Life Expectancy (2004), Chapter 36; conversation between Lorrie Lynn Hicks and Jimmy Tock

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