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This reads as a compact portrait of endurance. The line can be taken to mean that hardship does not cancel courage, and that a person can be battered by life yet still carry more resolve than circumstances suggest. It lands when someone has been underestimated after a rough stretch and then keeps going anyway.
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About Dean Koontz
American author
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author, known for suspense thrillers and, more broadly, for fiction that often blends horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire. He has published more than 105 novels and many novellas and short story collections. Many of his books have reached The New York Times Best Seller list, including fourteen hardcovers and sixteen paperbacks that rose to number one. Earlier in his career, he also wrote under several pen names, and his work has sold more than 500 million copies. Rolling Stone described him as “America's most popular suspense novelist.”
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Books by Dean Koontz
Intensity
1995
Shadowfires
1987
Watchers
1987
Fear Nothing
1999
Phantoms
1998