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Dean Koontz

"If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored."

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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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"Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle."

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"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."

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"The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly."

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"A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate."

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"Between natural ability and education choose natural ability, as it will keep you happy and will fetch you the glory sooner."

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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."

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"Ability without honor is useless."

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"The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting."

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"The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability."

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"Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better."
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"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."
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"She would have thought that working and living in continuous happiness, harmony, and security day after day would lead to mental lethargy, that her writing would suffer from too much happiness, that she needed a balanced life with down days and miseries to keep the sharp edge on her work. But the idea that an artist needed to suffer to do her best work was a conceit of the young and inexperienced. The happier she grew, the better she wrote."
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"The divine has taken a few steps back from humankind, perhaps in revulsion, perhaps because we don't deserve to look directly upon holy beings anymore.... When the divine enters the world these days from outside of time, it manifests discreetly through children and animals."
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