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Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Those who rely on you for their lives will be well served only if you fear what you should fear. You are a unique soul, a child of grace, but you can still fail yourself and others. -- Dean Koontz
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Because when you're doing it, then it's just something you do. But
if you talk about it, then it's something you are -- Dean Koontz
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Now, an hour later, Ethan stood at a window, gazing at the rain, like threads of seed pearls, accessorizing the hills of Bel Air.
Watching weather clarified his thinking.
Sometimes only nature felt real, while all human monuments and actions seemed to be the settings and the plots of dreams. -- Dean Koontz
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She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best. -- Dean Koontz
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Mankind was, in reality, the most ruthless, dangerous, unforgiving species on earth. -- Dean Koontz
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When making his music, he [Elvis Presley] had been the essence of cool, but in his movies he was often a self-parody embarrassing to watch. Colonel Parker, his manager, who had picked movie scrips for him, had served Elvis less well than the monk Rasputin had served Czar Nicholas and Alexandra. -- Dean Koontz
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Although experience has taught me to trust my feelings, I did not go inside to stand guard near her. She had asked me to wait on the bench. I had no intention of crossing her. Like most men, I find it mortifying to be ass-kicked by a woman who doesn't even weigh 110 pounds after Thanksgiving dinner. -- Dean Koontz
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In this world only the paranoid survive. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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My only armor is my belief that life has meaning and that, when my last sun has set and my last moon has risen, when the dawn comes that marks the moment when I am born with the dead, there will be mercy. -- Dean Koontz
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I knew that suffering can purify, that it's a kind of fire that can be worth enduring, but there were degrees of it to which I chose not to subject myself. -- Dean Koontz
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She can put her life in Mitch's strong hands and fall at once into a dreamless sleep. In a sense, that is what marriage is about-a good marriage-a total trusting with your heart, your mind, your life. -- Dean Koontz
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We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls -- Dean Koontz
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I didn't tell her that death lies dormant in each of us and will bloom in time. -- Dean Koontz
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She might have been born this way, without an empathy gene and other essentials. In that case, she would interpret any kindness as weakness. Among predatory beasts, any display of weakness is an invitation to attack. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood - Addison Goodheart pg. 84 -- Dean Koontz
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In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows -- Dean Koontz
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You don't find life by fleeing from it. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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The flesh on the nape of my neck did the crawly thing that it does so well. Some people say this is God's warning that the devil is near, but I've noticed I also experience it when someone serves me Brussels sprouts. -- Dean Koontz
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While life could be evaded, death could not. -- Dean Koontz
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The wall clock and her wristwatch had stopped, their sweep hands no longer wiping away the seconds, and the digital clock on the microwave had gone dark, as if something that lived outside of time had stepped into this world and brought its clockless ambiance with it. -- Dean Koontz
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When it reached him, the dog settled on its belly, then rolled onto its back with all four legs in the air, making itself vulnerable. It gave him a look that was full of love, trust, and a little fear. Crazily, -- Dean Koontz
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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. -- Dean Koontz
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Think much about girls. Considering my long, pale face and hound-dog eyes behind black-rimmed glasses with thick lenses, maybe I already knew that even through adulthood -- Dean Koontz
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I stood there, inexpressibly grateful that my life, for all its terrors, is so filled with moments of grace. -- Dean Koontz
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In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. -- Dean Koontz
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An elaborately jointed array of bones landed in my lap, spasming like a broken crab. My cry was every bit as manly as that of a young schoolgirl surprised by a hairy spider. I knocked the thing off me, onto the floor. It -- Dean Koontz
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I'm sure, you'll never again have a problem with a tool or a machine. No more hammered thumbs, no vacuum-cleaner catastrophes." "That'll take a second miracle." "Because all that clumsiness was never anything but an elaborate excuse not to have a gun, not to learn how to use one. -- Dean Koontz
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Humor is a petal on the flower of hope, and hope blossoms on the vine of faith. They have faith in each other and faith that life has meaning, and from this faith comes their indefatigable good humor, which is their greatest gift to each other - and to me. -- Dean Koontz
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From time to time, things in this world fall out of harmony, and there is a need to synchronize. -- Dean Koontz
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Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you. -- Dean Koontz
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Fear is the engine that drives the human animal. Humanity sees the world as a place of uncountable threats, and so the world becomes what humanity imagines it to be. They not only live in fear but use fear to control one another. Fearmongering is their true religion. -- Dean Koontz
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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom. -- Dean Koontz
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I won't be able to run with ghosts and slip down dark alleyways in quite the swift and stealthy fashion that I do now; but perhaps children will be amused by my hippopotamic heroics, and no one will disagree that bringing laughter to children in a dark world is admirable. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe the one dangerous thing about reading a library's worth of books was the way your imagination got pumped up like a bodybuilder on steroids. -- Dean Koontz
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What we do as a society is seek simple answers. -- Dean Koontz
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Cowards shrink from toil and peril, Vulgar souls attempt and fail; Men of mettle, nothing daunted, Persevere till they prevail. -- Dean Koontz
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How easy it might be to think that with the casting down of this crystal manna, the great metropolis has been sanctified, that it is as innocent as these bridal veils make it seem. -- Dean Koontz
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Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces. -- Dean Koontz
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Watching the sea as it carried to shore millions of fragments of the sun and cast them, cooled and foaming, on the sand. -- Dean Koontz
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I am the One, the all and the only. I live in the Pendleton as surely as I live everywhere. I am the Pendleton's history and its destiny. The building is my place of conception, my monument, my killing ground. -- Dean Koontz
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For a long time things were so bad. Very bad. Dark even when there was light.
The only thing that kept the dark back was the Forever Shiny Thing that was her secret ...
It is a word ... the word hangs on a silver chain. The word is HOPE. -- Dean Koontz
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The source of magic in this world is more mysterious than all the explanations that sorcerers and wizards have given for it, and it is more prevalent than can be understood by those who live according to the constricted form of reason so prevalent in our time. -- Dean Koontz
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I possess everyone who sleeps in the motor court, roam their memories, and embed recurrent nightmares that will destroy their sleep for weeks after I've departed them."
"I'd prefer a free continental breakfast. -- Dean Koontz
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These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine. -- Dean Koontz
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Always questioning your motivations is a healthy thing, but fearing your capacity for doing the wrong thing so that you retreat from many aspects of life is a terrible error in itself. -- Dean Koontz
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He had tried to shed his pain, to rise from the ashes like a drab phoenix with no hope except the cold peace of indifference. Now that events forced him to open himself to the world again, he was swamped by emotion as a novice surfer was overwhelmed by each cresting wave. -- Dean Koontz
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From birth to death we explore and seek, and in the end we arrive where we started, the past having made one great slow turn on a carousel to become our future, and if we have learned anything worth learning, the carousel will bring us to the one place we most need to be. -- Dean Koontz
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I've read more truth in fiction than in nonfiction, partly because fiction can deal with the numinous, and nonfiction rarely does. -- Dean Koontz
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Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world ... -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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I fell in love with her for her sense of humour. If she ever lost her sense of humour, I would have to dump her. Then I'd kill myself because I couldn't live without her. -- Dean Koontz
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When I woke up and the dark wasn't gone yet, and the dark seemed so big, then she sang soft and made the dark small again.
That is the best of all things we can do for one another: Make the dark small. -- Dean Koontz
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Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, both the experience of terror and the dealing out of it to others. We are healthier if we admit to this miswiring and do not struggle to be better than our natures allow. -- Dean Koontz
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Anyone who learns the true and hidden nature of the world will be terrified, Oddie, but there's a safe harbor past the terror. -- Dean Koontz
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Much of the world is beautiful, and much more is at least fair to the eye, and what might be ugly is nevertheless of the same texture as everything else and clearly belongs in the tapestry. -- Dean Koontz
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No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are. -- Dean Koontz
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Our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any one of us as are the present and the past. -- Dean Koontz
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The dark makes the light stuff brighter. -- Dean Koontz
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That is, Jack thought, the way of life. The horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on. -- Dean Koontz
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All death matters."
"Only to the living. -- Dean Koontz
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I could live with one butt cheek - just sit at a slant for the rest of my life, not worry about how baggy the seat of my blue jeans looked, get used to the nickname Halfass - but I couldn't live with my brains blown out. -- Dean Koontz
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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy. -- Dean Koontz
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The novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald said that the real dark night of the soul was always three o'clock in the morning, and those sixty minutes between three o'clock and four were reliably and literally the darkest in the city. -- Dean Koontz
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How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is just a synonym for death. -- Dean Koontz
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I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together. -- Dean Koontz
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The war had left his body pathetically damaged and weak, but his mind was as strong and clear as it had ever been, perhaps even tempered and made stronger by adversity. That, not madness, was his curse. -- Dean Koontz
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Although her eyes are neither golden nor heavenly blue, Terri Stambaugh has the vision of an angel, for she sees through you and knows your truest heart, but loves you anyway, in spite of all the ways that you have fallen from a state of grace. -- Dean Koontz
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We are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence. -- Dean Koontz
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Every beautiful facade seemed to conceal rot and ruin that I could almost see. -- Dean Koontz
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In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should. -- Dean Koontz
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Lying won't get you anything but misery. -- Dean Koontz
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Their melancholy drains me. Their need exhausts me. I am wrung by pity. Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving it scarred and sore. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes it seems that to exit this world, they must go through my heart, leaving me scarred and sore. -- Dean Koontz
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I was finally convinced of something I had suspected for a long time: God has a sense of humor, and because the world is wondrous, God expects us to find reasons to smile even on the darkest days. -- Dean Koontz
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She'd been living in a prison since the day she'd been born, even after leaving her mother, a prison of fear and shame and lowered expectations, and she'd been so accustomed to her circumscribed life that she had not recognized the bars. -- Dean Koontz
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What we're talking about here is goodness, mercy, and justice- and those are not fantasies. They'll exist whether you believe in them or not. However, if you believe, then you'll put your beliefs in action; and if you act you will help ensure that evil doesn't triumph. But only if you act. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Lies such as love, guilt, hate, courage, loyalty, and honor. -- Dean Koontz
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To have your life blow up four times before you're thirty would take something out of anyone, and I think it drained from my mom just enough hope that she never quite built her confidence back to what it once had been. -- Dean Koontz
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Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved. -- Dean Koontz
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A part of me knew ... from the moment I saw her;
her death would have been one wound too many that day. -- Dean Koontz
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Little mouse, you were so quick, so bright, so sweet, so full of life. And you still are everything you were then. None of it's lost forever. All that promise, all that hope, that love and goodness - it's still inside you. No one can take the gifts God gave you. Only you. -- Dean Koontz
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With a thick note of disbelief in her voice, Jilly said, 'You went through the wall to California?'
[Dylan] 'Yeah. Why not? Where'd you think we went-Narnia? Oz? Middle Earth? California's weirder than any of those places, anyway.'
Page 246 -- Dean Koontz
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Surrender to fear is an invitation to doubt. -- Dean Koontz
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If you're still, and if you don't hope too much, peace will come to you. It's a grace. But you have to choose happiness. -- Dean Koontz
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In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy. -- Dean Koontz
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No offense intended to the satanists who might be reading this, but I have found that those who worship the devil tend to be sneaky, more deceitful by far than your average Methodist - and proud of it. -- Dean Koontz
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A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse -- Dean Koontz
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Marriage is an expression of love and respect and trust and faith in the future, but the union of husband and wife is also an alliance against the challenges and tragedies of life, a promise that with me in your corner, you will never stand alone. -- Dean Koontz
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life. -- Dean Koontz
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So," said the Russian, after regaining is composure, "the lesson of the model is that the universe - all its matter and forms of energy - arise out of thought. -- Dean Koontz
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Mr. Thomas, any scientist will tell you that in nature many systems appear to be chaotic, but when you study them long enough and closely enough, strange order always underlies the appearance of chaos. -- Dean Koontz
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And because we have been given thought, will, and imagination, albeit on a human scale, we too have this power to create. -- Dean Koontz
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Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them? -- Dean Koontz
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Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are. -- Dean Koontz
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Before you know it the hurt will be gone. It won't matter as much as it does now. I promise it won't. -- Dean Koontz
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His love was an architect that entirely remade the reality of the chapel, transforming it into a cathedral as grand as any in the world. -- Dean Koontz
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This was Greater Los Angeles in an age of change, crackling with the energy of doom, yearning for the Apocalypse, where an unintended slight or an inadvertent trespass on someone else's turf might result in a thermonuclear response. -- Dean Koontz
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The faintest scraping-ticking arose as the knuckles of the hinge leafs turned against pivot pins in need of oil, and the door swung ever so slowly into the kitchen, -- Dean Koontz
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To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true. -- Dean Koontz
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Anyway, to maintain the right perspective, sweetie, we always should be at risk of failure, the possibility of making wrong choices. -- Dean Koontz
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I don't desire a change of scenery or exotic experiences. My heart yearns for familiarity, stability, the comfort of home- and my sanity depends on it. -- Dean Koontz
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This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience. -- Dean Koontz
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He said that the penny would not bring us luck, that even if it had been a million dollars, it would not of itself bring us luck and change our lives, that what happened to us was of our election - and therefore allowed us more hope than luck could ever provide. -- Dean Koontz
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kitchen radio brought news that the jihadists who had the previous day seized an ocean liner in the Mediterranean were now beheading passengers. -- Dean Koontz
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We are in this boot camp to learn, that if we don't persevere through all this world's obstacles and all its wounds, we won't earn our next life of great adventure. -- Dean Koontz
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If a man is a beast, he's a beast in his heart, and that's not the kind of heart that beats in you. -- Dean Koontz
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Dear, the man can't be eviscerated because he has no viscera. He's a walking colon. If you cut him open, you only end up covered in crap. -- Dean Koontz
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Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. -- Dean Koontz
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If my gift has a giver other than indifferent Nature and comes with a purpose, then the angel in charge of the Odd Thomas account must be operating on a shoestring budget. -- Dean Koontz
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Her direct stare probed, as if the story of my life were written in my eyes in a few succinct lines that she could read. -- Dean Koontz
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The dead don't talk. Perhaps they know things about death that the living are not permitted to learn from them. -- Dean Koontz
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If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us. -- Dean Koontz
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The more familiar that a place becomes, the more mysterious it becomes, as well, if you are alert to the truth of things. I have found this to be the case all of my life. -- Dean Koontz
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In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths. -- Dean Koontz
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life
and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. -- Dean Koontz
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... Any talent - whether to write songs or to write novels...came with the obligation to use it to the fullest of one's ability, with a fierce commitment barely distinguishable from neurotic obsession. ... In fact...commitment to the point of obsession wasn't merely an obligation but a necessity... -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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You once told me that we're here to eat all the good Mexican food we can," I reminded him, "and when we've had our fill, it's time to move on. -- Dean Koontz
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She watched a serrated formation of brown pelicans slice the sky and leave no scar. -- Dean Koontz
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. -- Dean Koontz
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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes the heart makes decisions the mind cannot, and though we know that the heart is deceitful above all things, we know that at rare moments of stress and profound loss it can be purged pure by suffering. -- Dean Koontz
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In our lives, we come to moments of great significance that we fail to recognize, the meaning of which sometimes does not occur to us for many years. Each of us has his agenda and focuses on it, and therefore we are often blind to what is before our eyes. -- Dean Koontz
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In certain fiction, she perceives truths that she rarely finds in nonfiction; therefore, in her quest to better understand the world and the meaning of her life, she reads those novels that suggest a world of wonders, dark and light, forever unfolding for eyes willing to see. -- Dean Koontz
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He actually felt as if God had sent the retriever to intrigue him, to remind him that the world was full of surprises and that despair made no sense when one had no understanding of the purpose - and strange possibilities - of existence. -- Dean Koontz
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People think power makes them big, but it brings out their inner bratty child and makes them small." - Grady Adams - "Breathless by Dean Koontz pg 287 chapter 59 -- Dean Koontz
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He's my father, whoever he is, so he must have had sex with my mother at least once, and I'd love to kill him for that. -- Dean Koontz
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If you really truly want to know, I've thought if I was ever free someday, I might discover I've held my tears so long that I can't cry anymore, that I'm a dry stone and nothing can ever be wrung from me. -- Dean Koontz
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If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. -- Dean Koontz
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Eventually he understood that he was crying for himself. He was ashamed of the man whom he had become, mourning the man whom he had expected to be when he'd been a boy. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe from now on the bittersweet memory of a child lost would be only the sweet memory of a child loved. And maybe, henceforth, it would not be a memory so heavy that it oppressed the heart. -- Dean Koontz
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I sure hope she's wrong, because one of the implications of her cosmology is that the many terrors we know here are an inoculation against worse in the world to come. -- Dean Koontz
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People who were perfectly sane on Tuesday sometimes go nuts on Wednesday. -- Dean Koontz
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Power is the central promise of evil, the dark light of that lamp, because nothing extinguishes the soul more quickly than pride in power. -- Dean Koontz
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Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake. -- Dean Koontz
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The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know. -- Dean Koontz
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Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model, but she's pretty in her way. -- Dean Koontz
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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think
and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse. -- Dean Koontz
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I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.'
We don't have pigeons.'
Then I'll feed the pterodactyls. -- Dean Koontz
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Because I can see them, I bridge life and death, and they hope I can open for them the door they are afraid to open for themselves. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. -- Dean Koontz
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By doing, I learn what to do. By going, I learn where to go. One day, by dying, I'll learn how to die, and leave the world and hope to land in light. -- Dean Koontz
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For the first time, he considered that utter indifference might inspire not inner peace but a limitless capacity for evil. -- Dean Koontz
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Inaction counted as a choice. -- Dean Koontz
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Politics was an illusion of service that cloaked the corruption of power. -- Dean Koontz
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There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night ... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it. -- Dean Koontz
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Americans thrive on mobility and feel shrunken in spirit when they do not have it.(Odd Thomas) -- Dean Koontz
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Delayed gratification."
"Yeah, it makes things sweeter."
"Wait too long, and what was sweet and creamy can turn sour. -- Dean Koontz
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Her eyes were clear; she hadn't been crying. She was a cop's wife first, a woman second; she wouldn't give in to tears as long as Wyatt was fighting for his life because she was fighting with him in spirit. -- Dean Koontz
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Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years. -- Dean Koontz
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Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. -- Dean Koontz
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What's gotten into you today? All evening -- Dean Koontz
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Freud would have had a grand time analyzing my have-to-die-clean complex. But then Freud was an ass. -- Dean Koontz
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The mommy-porn genre currently sweeping the book industry and the Babylonian excess of most television shows probably fall within the historical norm in our culture's sleaze index and are not omens of the imminent collapse of civilization, though if I were not so busy, I might start building an ark. -- Dean Koontz
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When balancing a bottle of nitroglycerin on the point of a sword, never complicate the task by trying to tap dance. -- Dean Koontz
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I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears? -- Dean Koontz
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The crazy thing is, Mother, after more than twenty years of this crap, down at the bottom of my heart, where it ought to be the darkest, I think there's still this spark of love for you. It may be pity, I'm not sure, but it hurts enough to be love. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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A dog can be a living work of art, a constant reminder of the exquisite design and breathtaking detail of nature, beauty on four paws. -- Dean Koontz
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In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization taht the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half. -- Dean Koontz
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Mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God. -- Dean Koontz
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It's only life. We all get through it. -- Dean Koontz
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I've seen things that I don't understand but that nonetheless delight me - Addison Goodheart pg 74 -- Dean Koontz
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I do not permit blasphemy, the F-word, or obscenities such as soy milk at my table. Consider yourself chastised. -- Dean Koontz
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Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there will always be an unbridgeable chasm between friendship and genuine love. -- Dean Koontz
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The value of any experience isn't in its positive or negative effect on his life but in the sheer luminous power of it, the vividness, the ferocity, the amount and degree of pure sensation that it provides. Intensity. -- Dean Koontz
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This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith. -- Dean Koontz
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The greatest danger, of course, was to believe that I was equal to them, because assurance can morph into arrogance that Death loves to prove unfounded. -- Dean Koontz
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Music is sound, sound consists of vibrations in the air, and these particular vibrations resonated with the marrow of my bones, with the tissues of my heart. - Addison Goodheart pg. 199 -- Dean Koontz
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I have to admit that when I watch a movie in which there is no moral context for the violence - I find that offensive. I think that's potentially damaging to society. -- Dean Koontz
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Life packed a clever one-two punch: cruelty and absurdity. -- Dean Koontz
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I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. -- Dean Koontz
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The concept of a weary severed hand, exhausted from relentless creeping, made no sense. -- Dean Koontz
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Nature frequently works to impress upon us our absurdity and thereby remind us that we are not the masters of the universe that we like to suppose we are. -- Dean Koontz
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I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck. -- Dean Koontz
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Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes."
"The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape. -- Dean Koontz
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He had taught me how to be a man when my real father proved not to be much of one himself and incapable of showing a son the way." - Odd Thomas - "Odd Hours by Dean Koontz pg 239 chapter 30 -- Dean Koontz
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His glare could melt a polar bear's testicles. -- Dean Koontz
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I tend to believe in the traditional architecture of life and the afterlife. This world is a journey of discovery and purification. The next world consists of two destinations: One is a palace for the spirit and an endless kingdom of wonder, while the other is cold and dark and unthinkable. -- Dean Koontz
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You don't need to like [a gun] to know you got to have it. I don't like gettin' a colonoscopy every five years, but I grit my teeth and drop my drawers and get it done just the same. -- Dean Koontz
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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. -- Dean Koontz
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I am the One, and I see all.
But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing. -- Dean Koontz
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The dead are merely the countrymen of my future. -- Dean Koontz
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In time, however, I came to understand that one can adore and desire that which is forever beyond reach. This might, in fact, be the hardest truth of human existence. -- Dean Koontz
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I am not only in a cold dark place; I AM a cold dark place. -- Dean Koontz
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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive. -- Dean Koontz
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And though the blood of Abel had once cried out from the Earth, we had come now to a time when so much blood had been spilled over the millennia that the throat of the Earth was clotted and choked, and fresh blood could not raise a voice from it. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender. -- Dean Koontz
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Puppies are adorable. I'm not a puppy. -- Dean Koontz
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Guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made. -- Dean Koontz
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I curse the night I let your idiot father squirt you into me. -- Dean Koontz
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After all, a society with such an enlightened tolerance of corruption and savagery needed to bear down hard on minor offenses to convince itself that it still had standards. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free will even though the consequences of our will are predictable. -- Dean Koontz
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She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change. (pg. 249) -- Dean Koontz
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Don't you love your mother, dear?"
"I guess so. A hard, sharp, thorny kind of love that might be pity more than anything else. -- Dean Koontz
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Easy luck always turns bad. You want the kind of luck you have to earn. -- Dean Koontz
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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes can't even hear crickets chirping. -- Dean Koontz
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Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. -- Dean Koontz
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Even if there are moments during the day when all seems normal and when every action of your own and of those around you seems to be unremarkable, the appearance of ordinariness is an illusion, and just below the placid surface, the world is seething. -- Dean Koontz
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Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows in perception if not in reality. The best response to terror is righteous anger, confidence in ultimate justice, a refusal to be intimidated. -- Dean Koontz
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He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing to take on his responsibilities, heartaches, and troubles along with his money. -- Dean Koontz
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And the funny thing was if you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself. -- Dean Koontz
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And your three-year-old Ford Explorer," Terezin said, "bought without your parents' money, a proud statement of your independence - of course it has a GPS. -- Dean Koontz
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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you want, if you seek, if you hope, who is to say that your hope might not be answered? -- Dean Koontz
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The truth was stranger than the official fiction. -- Dean Koontz
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It will be a world made not bright but brighter, not clean but cleaner. -- Dean Koontz
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Jocko likes salty, Jocko likes sweet, but never bring Jocko any hot sauce, like with jalapenos, because it makes Jocko squirt funny-smelling stuff out his ears. -- Dean Koontz
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Another plum, another plum, another plum for me! Jocko shakes the cyber tree! Ah ha-ha-ha, Ah ha-ha-ha! -- Dean Koontz
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He was part of a family whether he wanted to be or not, the family of humanity, more often than not a frustrating and contentious clan, flawed and often deeply confused, but also periodically noble and admirable, with a common destiny that every member shared. -- Dean Koontz
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In Monterey, at the small airport rental agency, he hired a vomit-green Ford Tempo. It was an offense to his refined sense of color. The Tempo's tempo was satisfyingly allegro on flat roads but a bit adagio on the hills. -- Dean Koontz
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While I like people, I do also like being alone in a room and seeing what you can do with a particular theme or subject. -- Dean Koontz
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In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable. -- Dean Koontz
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But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity. -- Dean Koontz
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World is sensation. We drift in an ocean of sensory stimuli: motion, color, texture, shape, heat, cold, natural symphonies of sound, an infinite number of scents, tastes beyond the human ability to catalogue. Nothing but sensation endures. Living things all die. Great cities do not last. -- Dean Koontz
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With friends, this is a cool world; without friends, it would be unbearably cold. -- Dean Koontz
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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts. -- Dean Koontz
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What popped up more than that was the realization that I made as an adult that the world is this incredibly complex, layered, and mysterious place and if you stop and think about it the human cell is literally more complex than a fleet of 747s. -- Dean Koontz
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No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are. -- Dean Koontz
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I don't mean to imply that I'm afraid of Death. I'm just not ready to go out on a date with him. -- Dean Koontz
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If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn't be a day you could eat. -- Dean Koontz
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The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits. -- Dean Koontz
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In the healing ways of women that remained mysterious to [him] even as he watched them do their work, tears were followed by reminiscences that brought a smile and soothed, and hope was always found to be the flower that bloomed from every seed of hopelessness. -- Dean Koontz
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The only monsters in this world are those who pass for human, who cast shadows and are reflected in mirrors, who smile and speak of compassion and shed convincing tears. -- Dean Koontz
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We live in God's amusement park. -- Dean Koontz
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We have all been brought into the world for some reason, and we must wonder why and hope to learn. -- Dean Koontz
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If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. -- Dean Koontz
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Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss. -- Dean Koontz
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When my wits fail me, I resort to self-deception. -- Dean Koontz
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What we had both done was keep on keeping on, which is all any of us can do. -- Dean Koontz
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Stay with me, God. The night is dark, The night is cold: My little spark Of courage dies. The night is long; Be with me, God, and make me strong. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people. -- Dean Koontz
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The depth of your wardrobe dazzles the mind. Ralph Lauren weeps. -- Dean Koontz
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God does not shout; He whispers, and in that whisper is the way." Chyna Shepard in "Intensity -- Dean Koontz
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Moving the kids was not a good idea, but I sure wanted to see nuns in monster trucks plowing their way through a blizzard. -- Dean Koontz
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When I noticed that some of the gray-haired ladies had tears in their eyes, I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too. -- Dean Koontz
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The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. -- Dean Koontz
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She said ... she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, babies laugh at everything, we was born happy and to make a better world. -- Dean Koontz
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The idea that there's good and evil knowledge ... well, that's strictly a religious point of view. Actions can be either moral or immoral, yes, but knowledge can't be labeled that way. To a scientist, to any educated man or woman, all knowledge is morally neutral. -- Dean Koontz
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Life would be easy if common sense ruled; but sometimes the easy way doesn't feel like the right way. -- Dean Koontz
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We were friends, never paramours. A lover who is enigmatic will most likely prove to be a cataclysm waiting to happen. But a charming friend whose usual warmth is raveled through moments of cool inscrutability can be an intriguing companion. -- Dean Koontz
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence. -- Dean Koontz
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I know what it's like to desperately need help, and what I think is it would feel really good to be on the other side, to be able to give help to people who need it, desperately or otherwise. -- Dean Koontz
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Money and beauty are defenses against the sorrows of this world but neither can undo the past. Only time will conquer time. The way forward is the only way back to innocence and to peace. -- Dean Koontz
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The mild wind made the trees sway gently, in a lullaby rhythm, and the resultant susurration was like the soft sighs and dreamy murmurs of a thousand peacefully slumbering children. -- Dean Koontz
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I took comfort that its IQ, while no doubt high enough to allow it to run for elective office, seemed to be only a fraction of mine. -- Dean Koontz
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The whisper of the dusk
is night shedding its husk. -- Dean Koontz
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If our current barbaric world spirals into greater corruption and brutality, our descendants may become so cruel and so morally perverse that they cross time to watch us suffer, bearing orgasmic witness to the bloodbaths from which their sick civilization grew. -- Dean Koontz
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Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath -- Dean Koontz
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Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person."
Smiling with delight, Ahriman said, "Oh, really, not accurately descriptive? Be careful housepainter. Your genes are showing. What if I were a cannibal? -- Dean Koontz
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Most people regarded Psychology as a science. Some called it a soft science, but those making such a distinction grew fewer by the year. -- Dean Koontz
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As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually decent, kind, compassionate. But in large corporations or governments, when great power accumulates in their hands, some become monsters even with good intentions. -- Dean Koontz
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Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life. -- Dean Koontz
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risible. In the Community, none -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes your life rolls away with you, like a big stone going downhill fast, -- Dean Koontz
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From their perspective, however, torture might make a sort of cockeyed sense if it was ritualistic, part of a ceremony that this fraternity of the demented required of themselves when they murdered one of their own. -- Dean Koontz
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Every eye sees its own special vision; every ear hears a most different song. In each man's troubled heart, an incision would reveal a unique, shameful wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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It's funny, ma'am, how sometimes you're so sarcastic but it doesn't sting."
"Because of my dimples. Dimples are a get-out-of-jail-free card -- Dean Koontz
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave. -- Dean Koontz
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Each man or woman was a mansion in a condition between grandness and disrepair, and even in a grand palace, sometimes a room existed in which no one but the resident would ever be welcome. -- Dean Koontz
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The hypocrisy of human interaction, wherein selflessness was publicly championed and selfishness privately pursued, both amused and disgusted him. Every act of kindness seemed, to him, to be performed only with an eye to the payback that might one day be extracted from the recipient. -- Dean Koontz
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Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together
forever. -- Dean Koontz
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Although much that was precious has been taken from me in this life, I have reason to remain an optimist. After the numerous tight scrapes I've been through, by now I should have lost one leg, three fingers, one buttock, most of my teeth, an ear, my spleen, and my sense of fun. But here I am. -- Dean Koontz
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Creating a family in this turbulent world is an act of faith, a wager that against all odds there will be a future, that love can last, that the heart can triumph against all adversities and even against the grinding wheel of time. -- Dean Koontz
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What has been is no more. Change has come. -- Dean Koontz
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Was the dividing line between life and fiction as hazy for other people as it was for a writer? -- Dean Koontz
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unlike most Californians who fled their state and moved here and then wanted to make Montana into a version of what they left behind. -- Dean Koontz
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My rich Diana. Fly me to the moon with you. Dance among the stars.
Treacle. Romantic hogwash. Derivative. Unworthy.
My rich Diana. I hate you, hate you, hate you. Hate you, hate.
"Do it," he said. -- Dean Koontz
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Of course, one must always remember that although The Sound of Music is the most feel-good movie musical of all time, it is crammed full of Nazis. -- Dean Koontz
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They never learn. The smarter they are, the dumber they get. -- Dean Koontz
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Because the moon has always been to him the lamp of wisdom, a symbol of the right way to see the world. -- Dean Koontz
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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. -- Dean Koontz
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Because wherever else the future leads, it leads ultimately to death, the end that is present in my beginning and in yours. -- Dean Koontz
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Once, there were no predators, no prey. Only harmony. There were no quakes, no storms, everything in balance. In the beginning, time was all at once and forever - no past, present, and future, no death. We broke it all. -- Dean Koontz
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Being known by everyone is not the same as being loved. -- Dean Koontz
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Hold every moment sacred. Give each clarity and meaning, each the weight of thine awareness, each its true and due fulfillment. - Thomas Mann, The Beloved Returns -- Dean Koontz
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Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life. -- Dean Koontz
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Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds. -- Dean Koontz
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He gave us the rude number one with lots of emphasis and then came after us. -- Dean Koontz
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Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom. -- Dean Koontz
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The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope. -- Dean Koontz
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I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental. -- Dean Koontz
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... eerie in a way it is nowhere else in the world, the flats receding and the low hills rising as if they are just fields of mist and walls of fog, illusions of shapes and dimensions, reflections of reflections, and those reflections only reflections of a dream. -- Dean Koontz
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I just became fascinated with how complex and unlikely the universe is and life is and Catholicism gives me an answer to that. -- Dean Koontz
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Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun. -- Dean Koontz
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There's such a thing as trying too hard, he told himself. It causes constipation of the mind. But such admonishments did no good. He was still as blocked as a pipe full of concrete. -- Dean Koontz
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When you laugh at yourself, you gain perspective. Then you realize that the mistakes you made, as long as they didn't hurt anyone but yourself - well, you can forgive yourself for those. -- Dean Koontz
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Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly. -- Dean Koontz
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There's just something unsettling about studying your reflection. It's not a matter of being dissatisfied with your face or of being embarrassed by your vanity. Maybe it's that when you gaze into your own eyes, you don't see what you wish to see - or glimpse something that you wish weren't there. -- Dean Koontz
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In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. -- Dean Koontz
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I didn't have a cell phone because I never needed to play video games or surf the Net, or exchange nude photos with a congressman. - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 137 chapter 19 -- Dean Koontz
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Even with the intention to be quiet, human beings seldom can restrain from comment or at least grumbled cursing; we are the chattering species, as much as we are anything else - Odd Thomas - Odd Apocalypse by Dean Koontz pg 56 chapter 7 -- Dean Koontz
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The fog that slowly tumbled like great masses of dripping white laundry gradually gave way to sheer curtains and then to isolated tattered scraps. -- Dean Koontz
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People scare me more than anything, for I know too well the savagery of which humankind is capable. -- Dean Koontz
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Whiskers of the cat, Webbed toes on my swimming dog; God is in the details. -- Dean Koontz
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There's more to me than you see, another me down inside somewhere, full of hate, ready to hurt, cut, smash, or if maybe there's no Other and there's just me alone, then I'm not the person I thought I was, I'm something twisted and terrible, terrible. -- Dean Koontz
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The word impossible contains the word possible'
What's that
some Zen thing?'
I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes he found it frustrating to be a sadist in an age when self-mutilation was all the rage -- Dean Koontz
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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, -- Dean Koontz
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He's got a chloroform-soaked rag in one hand, and before Judy realizes what's happening, the dude is all over her like fat on cheese. -- Dean Koontz
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Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder. -- Dean Koontz
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity. -- Dean Koontz
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Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity ... -- Dean Koontz
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Life is a train ride, and at the many stations along the route, people important to us debark, never to get aboard again, until by the end of the journey, we sit in a passenger car where most of the seats are empty. -- Dean Koontz
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Life is a gift that must be given back and joy should arise from its possession. It's too damn short and that's a fact. Hard to accept this earthly procession to final darkness is a journey done, circle completed, work of art sublime, a sweet melodic rhyme. A battle won. -- Dean Koontz
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The fallow soil of loneliness is fertile ground for self-deception. -- Dean Koontz
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If you're going to keep the music in you, Jonah, you've got to play a little bit every day purely for pleasure. Otherwise, you'll lose the joy of it, and if you lose the joy, you won't sound good to those who know piano - or to yourself. -- Dean Koontz
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The truth was in her voice as sure as rain and sunshine are in a green blade of grass. -- Dean Koontz
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My unique path through life has led me, however, to fear known threats but seldom the unknown, while most people fear both. -- Dean Koontz
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Have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.' -- Dean Koontz
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I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced. -- Dean Koontz
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When a leader used his power over the ruled for the purpose of settling scores and inflating his self-esteem, for remaking society according to his own grand designs, class warfare and genocide ensued. -- Dean Koontz
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Any life isn't just a story; it's thousands of them. -- Dean Koontz
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You can't fix things with a hug, but you can't make them any worse either. -- Dean Koontz
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the more infantile the students, the more seriously they take themselves. They are generally a humorless lot." In -- Dean Koontz
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Whatever happens here, trust your heart. It's as true as any compass. -- Dean Koontz
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I trusted providence to prevent a sneeze, refused to worry, declined to dwell on negative possibilities, and I did not sneeze, did not sneeze, still did not sneeze, but then I farted. -- Dean Koontz
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If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. -- Dean Koontz
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I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. -- Dean Koontz
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I avoid contemporary TV ... politics ... art: all too frantic, fevered, and frivolous, or else angry, bitter. -- Dean Koontz
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After his dinner, the wolfhound liked to prowl the grounds, sniffing the grass to learn what creatures of field and forest had recently visited. The yard was Merlin's newspaper. -- Dean Koontz
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At times like this, tears exorcise emotions that would otherwise haunt me and, by their haunting, embitter me -- Dean Koontz
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I was the worst kind of fool. When I look back on that August night, changed forever by all my wounds and all my suffering, that undamaged Odd Thomas seems like a different human being from me, immeasurably more confident than I am now, still able to hope, but not as wise, and I mourn for him. -- Dean Koontz
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Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires ... -- Dean Koontz
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And where the Ferris wheel carried its passengers high and brought them low and raised them high and brought them low again, as if it were not merely a carnival ride but also a metaphor for the basic pattern of human experience. -- Dean Koontz
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I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. -- Dean Koontz
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Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. -- Dean Koontz
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The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. -- Dean Koontz
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Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks. -- Dean Koontz
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Echoing off the tile walls, the sizzle-splash of the falling water sounded like the hissing of serpents and the brittle laughter of strange children. -- Dean Koontz
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There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way. -- Dean Koontz
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I was learning how people were with one another, how they acted and reacted and interacted, what they said and how they said it, what they wanted, what they hoped for - more than I could learn from books alone. -- Dean Koontz
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You've always been stone solid until now, like Joe Friday with no Y chromosome. Now you're Nancy Drew on a sugar rush. -- Dean Koontz
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For the first time in three years, Travis Cornell felt needed, felt a deep connection with another living creature. For the first time in three years, he had a reason to live. He -- Dean Koontz
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To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again. -- Dean Koontz
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Storytelling can heal broken hearts and damaged minds. -- Dean Koontz
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I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now.
I don't want to be an enabler, sir. I'd rather get you into a twelve step program to help you break this addiction. -- Dean Koontz
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Because deception requires both bold lies and lies of omission, it stains the soul, muddies the conscience, blurs the vision, and puts you at risk of headlong descent into greater darkness. As a boy, I could not have put -- Dean Koontz
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A sixth sense is a miraculous thing, which in itself suggests a supernatural order. The human intellect, however, for all its power and triumphs, is largely formed by this world and is therefore corruptible. -- Dean Koontz
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Reality is perception perception change ... reality is fluid so if by reality you mean reliably tangible objects and immutable events then theres no such thing -- Dean Koontz
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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands. -- Dean Koontz
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The sole purpose of existence is to open oneself to sensation and to satisfy all appetites as they arise. -- Dean Koontz
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She was reduced to the dependency of an infant, too terrified of life itself to find solace anywhere but in the familiar succoring breast and in the sound of that same heartbeat remembered from the womb. -- Dean Koontz
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But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness. -- Dean Koontz
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Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would. -- Dean Koontz
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At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is? -- Dean Koontz
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Everything barbarians do is nothing, no matter how loudly they insist it's something. -- Dean Koontz
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But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars. -- Dean Koontz
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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope. -- Dean Koontz
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There were two types of survivors in life: those, like her, who found the requisite strength in having once been loved with great intensity; and those who, having not been loved, learned to thrive on hatred, suspicion, and the meager rewards of revenge. -- Dean Koontz
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No standards anymore. Now Ricky he watches all them old Disney and Warner Brothers toons on DVD. You never have to worry if maybe Bugs Bunny is goin' to get it on with Daffy Duck. -- Dean Koontz
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None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. -- Dean Koontz
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In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into each other's penis. -- Dean Koontz
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I had no idea where he went when he was not with me. Perhaps he enjoyed exploring new places as much as did any living dog, and went off to wander previously unvisited neighborhoods of Magic Beach. -- Dean Koontz
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I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room. -- Dean Koontz
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy. -- Dean Koontz
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For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd probably long ago have gone seven kinds of crazy, one for each day of the week, if I didn't simplify my life in every area where I do have some control. -- Dean Koontz
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Dreams that are as rich as cream while they unfold are skim milk when we wake, and in time they wash out of our minds, leaving as little residue as water filtered through cheesecloth. -- Dean Koontz
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The clump-and-thud of avalanching books suggested that someone must be using the weapon of knowledge in an unconventional fashion. -- Dean Koontz
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Y'all take care of yourself now ... strange and interesting friends are hard to find. -- Dean Koontz
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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty. -- Dean Koontz
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Hope lies in action -- Dean Koontz
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Beyond the slumpstone wall lay a backyard, a swimming pool. Dappled with morning light and tree shadows, the water glimmered in shades of blue from sapphire to turquoise, as might a trove of jewels left by long-dead pirates who had sailed a sea since vanished. -- Dean Koontz
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. -- Dean Koontz
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We not-much-of-anything types don't worry about the cost of leaving a light on unnecessarily. -- Dean Koontz
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Monkey stalactites -- Dean Koontz
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On a subconscious level we're aware that time isn't enduring, that it is not a required condition of our existence, that there comes a point when we will have no need of it. -- Dean Koontz
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This is A Moment, stay with it, I told myself, -- Dean Koontz
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I don't procrastinate because I love the English language and the process of storytelling, and I'm always curious to see what will come to me next. If you procrastinate a lot, you might be one who loves having written, but doesn't so much like writing. -- Dean Koontz
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I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance ... the taproot ... the killer's ultimate and truest motivation ... is the hatred of truth ... the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder. -- Dean Koontz
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Life was like the ice on an early-winter pond: more fragile than it appeared to be, riddled by hidden fractures, with a cold darkness below. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd always had an ear for beauty, and maybe I'd had an eye for it as well, but until that day, I'd not recognized that the truth in great music could be found also in great art, that the heart could be lifted and the mind sharpened equally by both. -- Dean Koontz
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I suspected eccentricity was often if not always a response to pain, a defense mechanism against anguish and torment and sorrow. -- Dean Koontz
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After a silence, because he knew me well, he said, Not all wounds are the bleeding kind. -- Dean Koontz
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The way Winny saw it, the best thing and the worst thing were the same thing: nothing lasted ... what to say and felt you didn't belong anywhere, books were a way to lead another life, a way to be someone else entirely, to be anyone at all. -- Dean Koontz
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Beauty that steals the heart is often imperfect, suggests grace and kindness, and inspires tenderness more than it incites lust. -- Dean Koontz
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She said you need to eat well, say prayers without fail each morning and night, and avoid drinking strong spirits."
"One problem. Drinking strong spirits is how I pray. -- Dean Koontz
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Is this the sunniest of sunny days or isn't it?" "What?" "You've got eyes, child. Look around, look around!" "Sure, it's sunny." "Then you be sunny, too, and things will turn out better than if you aren't. -- Dean Koontz
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There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. -- Dean Koontz
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We are the most alive and closest to the meaning of existence when we are most vulnerable, when experience has humbled us and has cured the arrogance which, like a form of deafness, prevents us from hearing the lessons that this world teaches. -- Dean Koontz
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Amazement and astonishment express the momentary overwhelming of the mind by something beyond expectation. Amazement is an emotional response, astonishment an intellectual one. -- Dean Koontz
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A FRIGHTENED, ANGRY, FOUR-HUNDRED-POUND, antisocial chef with a combat shotgun never leads to anything good. -- Dean Koontz
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It's just, well, I can't stand it when someone's unfair to Mr. Wolflaw, because he's really so ... he's so incredible." "I understand. It really steams me when people say bad things about Vladimir Putin. -- Dean Koontz
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He continued to stroke its back and scratch its ears, but after a minute or two he realized he was seeking something from the dog that it could not provide: meaning, purpose, relief from despair. -- Dean Koontz
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This is nuts," Travis said, putting A Tale of Two Cities back where he'd gotten it. "I'm giving plot synopses to a dog, for God's sake!" Dropping -- Dean Koontz
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resplendent chambers of a true king's tomb. -- Dean Koontz
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In twenty-one years, I have not considered changing to Todd. The bizarre course of my life suggests that Odd is more suited to me, whether it was conferred by my parents with intention or fate. -- Dean Koontz
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People have a natural tendency to anthropomorphize their pets, to ascribe human perceptions and intentions to the animal where none exist -- Dean Koontz
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Imminent death didn't terrify her as much as did the prospect of having lived a life in perpetual retreat, a life that would amount now to so much less than she'd ever hoped, ... -- Dean Koontz
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Boo fell in at my side. He is the only ghost dog I have ever seen. Animals always move on. For some reason he had lingered more than a year at the abbey. Perhaps waiting for me. -- Dean Koontz
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If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner -- Dean Koontz
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. -- Dean Koontz
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Her stare was direct and unwavering, full of confidence earned from painful experience ... -- Dean Koontz
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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them. -- Dean Koontz
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When I am battered and oppressed by the world that humanity has made - which is difference from the world that is was given - my primary defense, my consolation, is the absurdity of that world -- Dean Koontz
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Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity. -- Dean Koontz
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Regardless of how hard the winds of chance might blow or how heavy the weight of experience might become, Stormy always stays on her feet ... -- Dean Koontz
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More likely, they would just cease to exist."
"That's death."
"No, it's different. Death leaves a corps. -- Dean Koontz
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity. -- Dean Koontz
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You couldn't be afraid of anything if you were sure you could bear the pain it might cause you. -- Dean Koontz
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Everyone thinks his family is strange," Del said, scratching Scootie behind the ears, "but it's just that ... because we're closer to the people we love, we tend to see them through a magnifying glass, through a thicker lens of emotion, and we exaggerate their eccentricities. -- Dean Koontz
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Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth. -- Dean Koontz
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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. -- Dean Koontz
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A silent dark ... as black as a moonless lake, as a ravine's wings, darkness there and nothing more, merely this and nothing more ... -- Dean Koontz
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She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well. -- Dean Koontz
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. -- Dean Koontz
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Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus -- Dean Koontz
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence. -- Dean Koontz
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls. -- Dean Koontz
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If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because every one of them will die one day. -- Dean Koontz
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Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true. -- Dean Koontz
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By their subtle reversal of all images, mirrors seemed to be windows to another world in opposistion to this one, a world where everything appeared familiar but was infact profoundly different -- Dean Koontz
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Moral responsibility is on the shoulders of those who take the technology out of the lab and use it to immoral ends. -- Dean Koontz
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SHE WAS A GIRL WHO OPENED DOORS, NOT BECAUSE she wanted to open them, but because she knew that she needed to open them. -- Dean Koontz
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A wasted opportunity wasn't just a missed chance, but was a wound to your future. Miss too many opportunities, thus sustaining too many wounds, and you wouldn't have a future at all. -- Dean Koontz
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Over dinner, I had agreed to be her paladin, and no self-respecting paladin would decide on a course of action based on a majority vote of a committee of two. -- Dean Koontz
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His jewelry was custom designed for the very rich and tasteless, people who would find it necessary to buy hundred-thousand-dollar necklaces to wear to a thousand-dollar-a-plate charity dinner, and never grasp the irony. -- Dean Koontz
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Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
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power past the Hummer and regain the roadway, we were forced counterclockwise. When -- Dean Koontz
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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. -- Dean Koontz
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Sudden falls can come to societies that know too little history or that have furnished their minds with easy one-note propaganda in place of the true complexity and terrible beauty of the storied past. -- Dean Koontz
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Free will," she agreed, "our greatest gift, the thing that makes life worth living, in spite of all the anguish it brings. -- Dean Koontz
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These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another ... Most good people have a sense of humor. The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are mostly humorless. -- Dean Koontz
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But all organic matter must have cell structure," Sara said. "Cell structure is virtually a definition of organic matter, a requisite of all living tissue, plant or animal. -- Dean Koontz
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Perhaps everything else that mattered in a relationship grew from trust - from a tranquil faith in the courage, integrity, and kindness of the other person. -- Dean Koontz
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Annamaria had preferred oil rather than electric lamps. She said that sunshine grows plants, the plants express essential oils, and years later those oils fire the lamps - giving back 'the light of the other days'. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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The joys of life can be found anywhere. Far places only offer exotic ways to suffer. -- Dean Koontz
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Guns don't feel nothin' about you, one way or t'other. No fair reason for you to feel bad towards them. -- Dean Koontz
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Dogs might love a place, as people do, but the only place they love beyond all others is the place where you are. -- Dean Koontz
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My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle. -- Dean Koontz
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Every human face is more enigmatic than the timeworn expression on the famous Sphinx out there in the sands of Egypt. -- Dean Koontz
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Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed. -- Dean Koontz
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We're all bisexual, don't you think? I have the urge for a man, sometimes, and with some of them I've indulged it. It's all sensation. Just sensation. -- Dean Koontz
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Mother seemed to wish that she'd never had a childhood, perhaps because all delight was fleeting and because the promise of one day was not fulfilled even just until the next. -- Dean Koontz
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These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. -- Dean Koontz
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If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species. -- Dean Koontz
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Time doesn't, as advertised, heal all wounds. Although the wrenching immediacy of grief eventually passed, the settled sorrow that replaced it might in its own way be even more intense. -- Dean Koontz
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Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent. -- Dean Koontz
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Funny how people that don't believe in nothin' are so quick to believe every crazy story about people like us. -- Dean Koontz
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I had remained hopeful that, among the millions on this Earth, there might be a few who could summon the courage to know me for what I am and have the self-confidence to still walk part of this life with me. -- Dean Koontz
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In an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist. -- Dean Koontz
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Oh, my adorable fry cook, wait till you see them. They're the most hideous, terrifying creatures, and wickedly cunning, and there's ever so much that can go wrong. But what you always know now, what we all know here, is exactly what we're fighting for and how right it is to fight for it. -- Dean Koontz
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So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: I guess I'll find out. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars. -- Dean Koontz
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Amalia insisted he wasn't cold, but only wounded by life and emotionally isolated. -- Dean Koontz
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Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch.
"Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot. -- Dean Koontz
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Reality isn't what it used to be. -- Dean Koontz
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I need useful work to keep my mind occupied, but I'd like to find work where it's ... quieter. -- Dean Koontz
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. -- Dean Koontz
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Although we universally celebrate imagination, it is in fact a power that can uplift us and save us
or as easily demean and destroy us. Mozart imagined great music. Hitler imagined death camps and built them. -- Dean Koontz
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life. -- Dean Koontz
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My point of view is this: If you like root-beer floats so much, have one on Monday, another on Tuesday, and a third on Wednesday. -- Dean Koontz
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In this brave new digital world, reality is plastic, and your identity is whatever you wish it to be. As is your future: Wish it, build it, live it. -- Dean Koontz
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Some days are so difficult that if we didn't let wine steal our wits, how would we sleep? -- Dean Koontz
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On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd rather live the now than talk about the was. -- Dean Koontz
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Most people can't wait to leave kidhood behind. But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt. -- Dean Koontz
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You had a good dinner of properly fried food, and if you want to live long enough to have another one, you've got to weaponize properly. -- Dean Koontz
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When she realized that the tears might be as persistent as the shakes, she ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book. Although -- Dean Koontz
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She ran for the only medicine that reliably cured any bout of unpleasant feelings: a book. -- Dean Koontz
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Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you. -- Dean Koontz
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Life's about living and being happy, not about dying. -- Dean Koontz
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This isn't a stupid horror movie, odd one. It's never too late to do the intelligent thing. -- Dean Koontz
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I'm a bad case of arrested development, stuck in early adolescence, more screwed-up-twisted-up-tangled-up than a couple earthworms makin' babies. -- Dean Koontz
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Here lie your hopes and dreams, shattered and swept aside ... -- Dean Koontz
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption. -- Dean Koontz
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Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor"
"A ship without an anchor can never be at rest -- Dean Koontz
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One of the good things about being twelve or younger is that you tend to believe that you'll live forever. -- Dean Koontz
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Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal. -- Dean Koontz
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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope. -- Dean Koontz
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Only the moonlit mind allows wonder, and it is in the thrall of wonder that you can see the intricate weave of the world of which you are but one thread, one fantastic and essential thread. -- Dean Koontz
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Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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I reminded myself that the heart is deceitful above all things - Addison Goodheart pg. 88 -- Dean Koontz
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I don't allow flying nuns in my convent," she said. "They tend to be frivolous, and during night flight, they're prone to crashing through windows. -- Dean Koontz
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He had the raw, rough voice of one who had marinated his larynx in whiskey and slow-cooked it in years of cigarette smoke. -- Dean Koontz
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He held the sandwich in his right hand, a cigarette in his left, alternating between the two. When witness to this, I always hoped that in error he would take a bite of the cigarette or attempt to smoke the sandwich, but he never became confused. -- Dean Koontz
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Out of sight above the house, the mirror moon reflected the sun of a day not yet dawned, shining the pale light of tomorrow on the yard and on the paper birches. -- Dean Koontz
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He drops the pistol into the right-hand pocket of his raincoat. He is not expecting trouble. Nevertheless, he goes nowhere unarmed. One can never be too careful. Besides, opportunities often arise unexpectedly. In -- Dean Koontz
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Talking about a problem sometimes makes it worse. -- Dean Koontz
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She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me. -- Dean Koontz
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instrument for nothing, and she had wanted to learn to play it largely because -- Dean Koontz
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I could only lose her if, from this moment forward, I made wrong choices, or if she made them. But I would take those odds rather than the odds that luck offered. -- Dean Koontz
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Hope, however, isn't all that's needed to achieve change. Hope is a hand extended, but two hands are required to be pulled out of this deep hole. The second hand was faith ... -- Dean Koontz
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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have. -- Dean Koontz
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But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern -- Dean Koontz
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What's dropped your heart into your shoes? -- Dean Koontz
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Unlike the beasts of the wild, the many cruel varieties of human monsters, when at last cornered, seldom fight with greater ferocity. Instead, they reveal the cowardice at the core of their brutality. -- Dean Koontz
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The problem with omens is that they never come with an illustrated pamphlet explaining what they mean. -- Dean Koontz
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A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is not only a fool, but a great fool. -- Dean Koontz
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If a girl wasn't loved a little bit, without the depth of affection that might at least be mistaken for love, she was being used, and no one was the better for being used -- Dean Koontz
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Eccentricity is the universal trait of humanity. -- Dean Koontz
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I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen. -- Dean Koontz
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Fact: No matter how smart and courageous and well-intentioned you are, there's always a chance that you would not become the person you envisioned yourself being, because your own mind or body could fail you. -- Dean Koontz
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The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles. -- Dean Koontz
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The normality of the house terrified her: the gleaming surfaces, the tidiness, the homey touches, the sense that a person lived here who might walk in daylight on any street and pass for human in spite of the atrocities that he had committed. -- Dean Koontz
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You should have more faith in fiction. It lets you come sideways at the truth, which is the only way anyone ever gets near it. -- Dean Koontz
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That's life. Always something, more good than bad, but always interesting if you're paying attention. -- Dean Koontz
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Boo seemed to be less a ghost than he was a guardian spirit, always happy and ready to serve, still on the earth not because he had remained behind after death but because he had been sent back. Consequently, perhaps he had the power and permission to move between worlds as he wished. -- Dean Koontz
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Even when God is your co-pilot, it pays to pack a parachute. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't be negative. Negative thinking disturbs the fabric of the cosmos. -- Dean Koontz
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. -- Dean Koontz
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You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate. -- Dean Koontz
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Now, sprawled comfortably in his motel bed, Anson Sharp enjoyed the sleep of the amoral, which is far deeper and more restful than the sleep of the just, the righteous, and the innocent. -- Dean Koontz
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in this dangerous time when shadows cast shadows of their own, when darkness often passed for light, the just and the unjust wore the same face. Weaving -- Dean Koontz
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If she could seldom bring herself to touch me and even more seldom look at me directly, she nonetheless made a place for me in her life. -- Dean Koontz
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Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't worry too much about the future. The past is past. The future is an illusion. All we have is now, and we'll get through it minute by minute. -- Dean Koontz
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My name is Malcolm Pomerantz, and I'm an axe man, though not like those guys on that reality-TV show about loggers. -- Dean Koontz
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In a universe in which past, present, and future came into existence all at once, complete from beginning to end, with all possible outcomes of every life woven through the tapestry, there is no chance, only choice, no luck, but only consequences. -- Dean Koontz
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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand it. If what you're doing has merit, it will find its way. -- Dean Koontz
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My guess was that when you descended to a certain depth of depravity, the Fogs could smell you as a hound, catching a murderer's spoor, could track the criminal through forest, field, and moor. -- Dean Koontz
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Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way. -- Dean Koontz
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Hands of Mercy and tanks of hell. -- Dean Koontz
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Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses. -- Dean Koontz
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If you evoked that frown, what you feared was his disapproval, and when you learned that you had disappointed him, you realized that you needed his approval no less than you needed air, water, and food. -- Dean Koontz
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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes truth was elusive... -- Dean Koontz
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All she wanted was love with respect, respect was so important to her, and I could give her that. -- Dean Koontz
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lookout for a retriever with -- Dean Koontz
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Taking in money, banks were like industrial vacuum cleaners. Giving it out, they were clogged faucets -- Dean Koontz
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Out of the seething crowd, out of the light and the darkness, came Blossom Rosedale, the one and only Happy Monster, which was a name that she had given herself, not because she loathed the way she looked but because she was truly happy in spite of all her suffering. -- Dean Koontz
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We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure. -- Dean Koontz
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Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. -- Dean Koontz
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By her stare, this woman settled a solemn awe upon my heart, and I was frightened by the degree to which I felt humbled and by the intensity with which I felt loved, and I had to look away. -- Dean Koontz
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Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. -- Dean Koontz
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Like all of us, I was born for joy. This broken world, however, breaks most of us, grinding relentlessly on its metaled tracks. -- Dean Koontz
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Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. -- Dean Koontz
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds. -- Dean Koontz
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He loved her as he had never loved another, and he trusted her as he had allowed himself to trust no one else. But by the nature of the world, those who loved and trusted were uniquely vulnerable -- Dean Koontz
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The nip that twitches through your blood is the chill of the sudden suspicion that you are a stranger in a strange land. -- Dean Koontz
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And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me. -- Dean Koontz
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If allowed to be, the heart is self-policing, and a reasonable measure of guilt guards against corruption. -- Dean Koontz
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I hate violence. I hate injustice more. I just want to be a fry cook, but the world demands more from me than eggs and pancakes. -- Dean Koontz
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A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum. -- Dean Koontz
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The hard rain nailed the night to the city. -- Dean Koontz
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I am wary of any gun, anywhere, anytime - except when it's in Stormy's hand. She could sit with her finger on the detonation button of a nuclear weapon, and I would feel safe enough to nap. -- Dean Koontz
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Human beings, however, were different from apples and oranges: The flavor of the peel did not reliably predict the taste of the pulp. -- Dean Koontz
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Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic ... -- Dean Koontz
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Belief and trust, twined together, can meet any danger. -Gwyneth pg 88 -- Dean Koontz
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A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside. -- Dean Koontz
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Get out of here while you can. She's crazier than a syphilitic suicide bomber with mad-cow disease. -- Dean Koontz
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I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over. -- Dean Koontz
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I didn't think she would willingly give me up to the hulk; but he would break her like a ceramic bank to get at the coins of knowledge that she held. -- Dean Koontz
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Say, Sometimes I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. But what do I know of real people or the world, considering my strange existence? -- Dean Koontz
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I think there may be more truth in fiction than in real life. Or at least truth condensed so that it's more easily understood. -- Dean Koontz
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Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy. -- Dean Koontz
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Change isn't easy ... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard ... 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. -- Dean Koontz
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Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one. -- Dean Koontz
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Life is hard in a world gone wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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We don't call them inmates,' Molly said, quoting one of the psychiatrists.'We call them patients. -- Dean Koontz
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People hide truths about themselves from themselves. Such self-deception is a coping mechanism, and to one extent or another, most people begin deceiving themselves when they're children. -- Dean Koontz
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Getting behind the wheel, he said, "You're filthy, and you stink. You're not going to be a lot of trouble about taking a bath, are you?" The dog yawned. By -- Dean Koontz
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Everyone, Pax believed, was more than she or he appeared to be, and one of the saddest things about the human condition was that most people never realized what talents, capacities, and depth they possessed. That Pogo had taken a full measure of himself must be one reason that Bibi so loved him. -- Dean Koontz
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I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent. -- Dean Koontz
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Truly tough guys never say they're tough. -- Dean Koontz
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But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer ... well, it's like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can't just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. -- Dean Koontz
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I am no good alone. I need bonds, vows real if unspoken, shared laughter, and people who depend on me as I depend on them. -- Dean Koontz
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But I keep the kid in my heart, you know, and once in a while she gets out. It's a writer thing. The past is material. You never want to forget it, how it was, how it felt. Nurse -- Dean Koontz
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I needed more time to think. And a better brain with which to do the thinking. -- Dean Koontz
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What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere. -- Dean Koontz
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The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors. -- Dean Koontz
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Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton -- Dean Koontz
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He considered razing the house and rebuilding, but he realized that houses are not haunted, and regardless of the architecture with which we surround ourselves,our ghosts stay with us until we ourselves are ghosts. -- Dean Koontz
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This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you don't overdose -- Dean Koontz
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In treacherous currents, she is kept steady by a moral anchor the size of a ship. -- Dean Koontz
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upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence. -- Dean Koontz
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I have no choice but to believe that all our lives are woven through with grace, because only then could the promise made to me and Stormy come true. -- Dean Koontz
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She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly. -- Dean Koontz
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This fair world, compounded of uncountable beauties and enchantments and graces, inspired in me only one abiding fear, which was that I might live in it too long. -- Dean Koontz
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Memories aren't rags that come clean with enough ringing. -- Dean Koontz
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I suspect she must speak without emotion or otherwise entirely lose the self-control that is required to speak to me at all. -- Dean Koontz
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For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends. -- Dean Koontz
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All I asked was that I be spared surprises, although, in this world of six billion souls, all acting with free will and too many with audacity, surprises are inevitable, too few of them are the kind that make you smile and that lift your heart. -- Dean Koontz
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I have a sofa on which I never nap, big windows with an ocean view that I rarely see because I keep the pleated shades down at all times while working. I know I'm a potential slacker, so I don't tempt myself. -- Dean Koontz
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Love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only
and best
answer to death is loving. Loving. -- Dean Koontz
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Fear for your life sharpens your edge. Dread dulls it, think of the creep instead, stopping him. -- Dean Koontz
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Was not merely weak but also evil to throw away your life when so many had their lives or the promise of their future taken from them by cruel people or by the brutal forces of nature. -- Dean Koontz
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The unthinking embrace of irrationality is literally madness. But embracing rationality while denying the existence of any mystery to life and its meaning - that is no less a form of madness than is eager devotion to unreason. -- Dean Koontz
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You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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He dreamed of being director of the FBI instead of attorney general. Considering some of the unsavory characters who had held the latter post, Milo didn't have the credentials for it. -- Dean Koontz
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The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel. -- Dean Koontz
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Their perpetual readiness for play is endearing, and their willingness to forgive deception time after time is one of the key differences between the heart of a dog and the human heart. Trixie -- Dean Koontz
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If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would probably melt under my tongue. -- Dean Koontz
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Variety is not the spice of life. It is the mother of disorder. Individuality is not the hallmark of freedom. It is the essence of decadence. Freedom is slavery to chaos. Unity is peace, all thinking and acting as one. -- Dean Koontz
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There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour. -- Dean Koontz
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ravaged kidney; but, God willing, she would be able to enjoy a full life with the one that remained. -- Dean Koontz
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The sky, an inverted blue ceramic cauldron, poured out a hot dry brew. -- Dean Koontz
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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope -- Dean Koontz
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What do people get from all that devil mumbo-jumbo anyway?" "A sense of purpose, I guess." "They could volunteer at an animal shelter instead." "Yes, sir. But then they wouldn't get to have group sex while wearing goat horns or kill people for fun. -- Dean Koontz
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The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe there's nothing impossible tonight. We're down the hole to Wonderland, and no White Rabbit to guide us.
If I remember correctly, the White Rabbit was an unreliable guide, anyway. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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I think the world is an interesting place and I don't think anybody has the firm and final answer to what it is but I kind of assume there's a purpose. -- Dean Koontz
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Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now. -- Dean Koontz
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned. -- Dean Koontz
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A flipped fork flicked my forehead. -- Dean Koontz
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. -- Dean Koontz
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Quick now, here, now, always, if we are in a condition of complete simplicity (as the poet said), hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more likely to sink him. -- Dean Koontz
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Hope and trust will more reliably keep a man afloat, while fear is more like to sink him. -- Dean Koontz
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One of those librarians who rules the stacks with an intimidating scowl, whispers quiet sharply enough to lacerate the tender inner tissues of the ear, and will pursue an overdue-book fine with the ferocity of a rabid ferret. -- Dean Koontz
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Men and women who seek to become gods must first lose their humanity. -- Dean Koontz
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it grinned the foolish and charmingly witless grin of all dogs who had ever ridden shotgun in such a fashion. In -- Dean Koontz
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Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation. -- Dean Koontz
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair. -- Dean Koontz
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We've only been sitting here forty minutes. I'm never at the morning table less than an hour and a half. I do some of my finest plotting over breakfast coffee and raisin brioche. -- Dean Koontz
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What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time. -- Dean Koontz
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To believe in luck, you must believe that the universe is a roulette wheel and that instead of paying out to us what we have earned, it pays out only what it wishes. But it is not a spinning wheel of chance, it is a work of art, complete and framed by eternity. -- Dean Koontz
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You're a murderer.'
'So are you' she said.
'No, I kill. You murder.'
'What's the difference?'
'I kill murderers. -- Dean Koontz
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To generations of the willfully blind, true beauty can remain unseen in plain sight, but beauty sooner or later asserts itself - always, always, always - and is at last recognized, because there's so damn little of it. -- Dean Koontz
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He knew that fate was only a mythological concept -- Dean Koontz
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After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled. -- Dean Koontz
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I can't allow myself to be wary of one place merely because it reminds me of another place where I almost died, because just about every place reminds me of another place ... -- Dean Koontz
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If we aren't here for one another, why are we here? - Grady Adams -- Dean Koontz
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She realized then that madness and sanity were two worlds separated from each other by no more than a single step. -- Dean Koontz
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For a while, as the spent sky sluggishly refilled its reservoir with laden clouds drawn off the ocean, Bibi -- Dean Koontz
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That's really specific, ma'am. For a prediction, I mean."
"It's not a prediction."
"It's not? Then what is it?"
"It's what is. -- Dean Koontz
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You do what you have to do. That's who you seem to be to me, anyway. You're one who does what he has to do. -- Dean Koontz
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Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable. -- Dean Koontz
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If we were capable of thinking of everything, we would still be living in Eden, rent-free with all-you-can-eat buffets and infinitely better daytime TV programming. -- Dean Koontz
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For laughter is the perfect medicine for the tortured heart, the balm for misery, -- Dean Koontz
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Be happy. Persevere. -- Dean Koontz
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Because wonder admits to the existence of mystery, and the recognition of mystery in the world allows the possibility of Truth. -- Dean Koontz
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That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber. -- Dean Koontz
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But sometimes I knew things with my heart that my mind could not explain. -- Dean Koontz
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the worst happens when you least expect it -- Dean Koontz
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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning ... as does death. -- Dean Koontz
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Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know. -- Dean Koontz
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Every day in every life is of the most profound importance. -- Dean Koontz
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The combination of the song, the birthmark, and the cashier's haunting gray eyes generates in Vess an eerie sense of expectancy. Something exceptional is about to happen. -- Dean Koontz
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He would pray ... for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face. -- Dean Koontz
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Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know. -- Dean Koontz
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Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by. -- Dean Koontz
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Two murders and an act of arson. Junior was being a bold boy this evening -- Dean Koontz
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You will see that this is true, though you will also see that between the mad and the misguided, the line is as thin as a split hair that has been split again. -- Dean Koontz
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,we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, -- Dean Koontz
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I never have lunch because it makes me foggy-headed. -- Dean Koontz
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You amaze me and scare me. I can't figure where you came from or how you got to be what you are, but you couldn't have come where you're more needed. -- Dean Koontz
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Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. -- Dean Koontz
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The chill, like scurrying spiders, worked deeper into him, weaving webs of ice in the hollows of his bones. -- Dean Koontz
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This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure. Our third and eternal life comes after that. -- Dean Koontz
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In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary. -- Dean Koontz
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Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us had a human heart. -- Dean Koontz
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Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist. -- Dean Koontz
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life. -- Dean Koontz
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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don't want them to feel you've dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn't come along all that often. -- Dean Koontz
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As they have taught me, I believe that without asking, we are given all we need. We must have the wit and wisdom to recognize the strengths and tools at our command, and find the courage to do what must be done. -- Dean Koontz
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When she had delight in her heart, her face transcended all her suffering, whereupon the scars and the deformed features and the mottled skin became the remarkable face of a hero and the cherished face of a friend. -- Dean Koontz
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Pain is all I know." He murmured.
"Peace is all I want -- Dean Koontz
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I am getting the chaos I wanted. The problem is, you can switch the chaos on, but chaos itself is in control of the off switch. -- Dean Koontz
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Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. -- Dean Koontz
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Perhaps this was a day of firsts. The day one dies, of course, is a first in any life. -- Dean Koontz
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Modesty is related to diffidence, diffidence is related to shyness, Shyness is a synonym for timidity, timidity is a characteristic of the meek, the meek do not inherit the Earth, they serve those who are self confident and self assertive. -- Dean Koontz
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Even the wisest and the best of us can be foolish occasionally. -- Dean Koontz
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When she returned, she smiled and said, "We were at the movies once, and this dork took two phone calls during the film. Later we followed him, and Andre broke both his legs with a baseball bat."
This proved that even the most evil people could occasionally have a socially responsible impulse. -- Dean Koontz
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Evil never dies. It just changes faces. -- Dean Koontz
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Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter. -- Dean Koontz
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Whatever you expect is what will be, so simply change your expectations. -- Dean Koontz
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Darkening sea full of stirred silt and clouds of minute -- Dean Koontz
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There are silences and silences. No one of them is like another. There is the silence of grief in velvet-draped rooms of a plushly carpeted funeral parlor which is far different from the bleak and terrible silence of grief in a widower's lonely bedroom. -- Dean Koontz
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She turned to him, shook her head. Her black hair tossed, and the beams of the late-afternoon sunlight played upon it, sending brief ripples of red and green and blue through it the same way that light, shimmering on the black surface of oil, creates short-lived, wriggling rainbows. -- Dean Koontz
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Embrace the weather, child, and you'll understand the balance of the world. -- Dean Koontz
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An age-old patter that seemed like chaos but was not ... -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage. -- Dean Koontz
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When we don't allow ourselves to hope, we don't allow ourselves to have purpose. Without purpose, without meaning, life is dark. We've no light within, and we're just living to die. -- Dean Koontz
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I believe that I was a dog in a past life. That's the only thing that would explain why I like to snack on Purina Dog Chow. -- Dean Koontz
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Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again; -- Dean Koontz
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Roots like an oak tree, Barney." He -- Dean Koontz
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I enjoy the hell out of writing but don't like what follows: promotion and publicity, which I always strive to keep to a minimum, sometimes to my publisher's dismay. -- Dean Koontz
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Patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives, and the most common pattern is the circle. -- Dean Koontz
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We are coming now to dark shoals in rough waters, to straits so narrow that virtue and wickedness voyage close together and may be at times more difficult than usual to differentiate from each other. -- Dean Koontz
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. -- Dean Koontz
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We are impatient for the future and try to craft it with our own powers, but the future will come as it comes and will not be hurried. If we are good at waiting, we discover that what we wanted of the future, in our impatience, is no longer what we want, that waiting has brought wisdom. -- Dean Koontz
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To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish to see them. - Addison Goodheart pg. 119 -- Dean Koontz
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If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character motivations. -- Dean Koontz
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Annamaria insists that mere hours earlier, I saved entire cities, sparing many hundreds of thousands from nuclear terrorism. Even if that is most likely true, I feel as though, in the process, I have forfeited a piece of my soul. -- Dean Koontz
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Too many years of watching old Warner Bros. cartoons by Chuck Jones can instill in you a silliness gene by proxy. -- Dean Koontz
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When a good woman knows an important thing needs to be done, she won't let death prevent her from doing it. -- Dean Koontz
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And she had worn bitterness as though it were a crown. -- Dean Koontz
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Never, never try to scope the market. -- Dean Koontz
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suffer lasting psychological trauma. Still, I don't think it's a good idea to subject her to an interrogation tonight." "Not an interrogation, -- Dean Koontz
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Her husband, Rafael, who'd left her and who'd contributed not one penny to his children's welfare, was a fool of such dimensions that he should have been required to dress like a jester, complete with silly hat and curled-toe shoes. -- Dean Koontz
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One of the underlying things I like to do in books, is just say, stop and look at this for a moment. Not that you've got to believe that Jesus was real, or not to believe in God, but the belief that it isn't just happenstance. -- Dean Koontz
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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop. -- Dean Koontz
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When we are transported either by Mozart or Glenn Miller, we find ourselves in the presence of the ineffable, for which all words are so inadequate that to attempt to describe it, even with effusive praise and words of perfect beauty, is to engage in blasphemy. -- Dean Koontz
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pity very often - not always - comes with an unspoken and sometimes unrecognized element of contempt. -- Dean Koontz
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He most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another. -- Dean Koontz
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At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found. -- Dean Koontz
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Coincidence, Jim, is just a word superstitious people use to describe complex events that in truth are the mathematically inevitable consequences of a primary cause. - Michael quoting Mr. Spock -- Dean Koontz
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I can love October in September. September doesn't care. -- Dean Koontz
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She loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend. -- Dean Koontz
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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves. -- Dean Koontz
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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce. -- Dean Koontz
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Except for the lack of enormous insects, suffocating humidity, malaria victims groaning in death throes, poisonous vipers as thick as mosquitoes, and rabid jungle cats madly devouring their own feet, you would have sworn you were in the Amazon rainforest. -- Dean Koontz
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A grace is a thing you get from God, you use it to make a better world, or not use it, you have to choose. -- Dean Koontz
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Britney: You in a fight?
Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound. -- Dean Koontz
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Laguna prided itself on being an artist's colony that accepted all classes and cultures, not merely tolerating eccentrics but delighting in them. -- Dean Koontz
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Child, do you know where trult great courage comes from, the kind of courage that will never back down?'
I said, "Faith."
"And love," she said. "faith is a kind of love you know. Love of what is unseen but certain. Love makes us strong and brave. -- Dean Koontz
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And so we went to the Panamint, where Death had gone to gamble and had, as always, won. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes, just trying was a triumph. -- Dean Koontz
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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death. -- Dean Koontz
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She'd known that being a victim was often a choice people made. -- Dean Koontz
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Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't get me wrong. I'm sure you've got a fabulously dark, twisted, and perhaps even deeply sick imagination. I'm not trying to devalue the dementedness of your imagination and do not mean to diminish your pride in it. -- Dean Koontz
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Watching me play, Stormy had once said that if I were to become a regular bowler, I would spend far more time in the gutter than would the average alcoholic hobo. -- Dean Koontz
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When someone gives you a special gift, never treat it lightly. If you treat it like a treasure, then it'll be one. -- Dean Koontz
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Even in chaos, there is order, purpose, and strange meaning that invites - but often thwarts - our investigation and our understanding. -- Dean Koontz
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People existed, however, who believed that closet racist were everywhere around them. They needed to believe this in order to have prupose and meaning in their lives, and to have someone to hate. -- Dean Koontz
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Half a century goes by in what seems like a year. Don't waste an hour in boredom, son, or wishing for tomorrow. -- Dean Koontz
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Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic. -- Dean Koontz
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The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up to how amazing the world is. -- Dean Koontz
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Three more words. Be happy. Persevere. -- Dean Koontz
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Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose. -- Dean Koontz
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But in a nation that had nearly spent its way into bankruptcy, sturdy locks and a perimeter alarm were the preferred form of security, because they didn't require salaries, health care, and pensions. -- Dean Koontz
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In nightmares, we can't look into our own eyes except by indirection, perhaps because we fear discovering that therein lie the worst monsters plaguing us. -- Dean Koontz
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I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs. -- Dean Koontz
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The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith. -- Dean Koontz
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There's no middle ground in modern movies; you either save a kingdom and marry a princess or you are shot to death by assassins hired by the evil corporation that you are trying to bring to justice in the courtroom of a corrupt judge. -- Dean Koontz
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In a world where McDonald's now sells salads with low-fat dressing, anything is possible. -- Dean Koontz
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I am told not to let the tone of this narrative become too dark. A certain 400-pound muse will park his 150-pound ass on me by way of editorial comment, and there is always the threat of his urine-filled cat. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us. -- Dean Koontz
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Laugh at tyrants and the tragedy they inflict. Such men welcome our tears as evidence of subservience, but our laughter condemns them to ignominy. -- Dean Koontz
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This side of Eden, whether we realize it or not, we feel the stain on our souls, and at every opportunity, we try to scrub it away with steel-wool guilt. -- Dean Koontz
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Chyna Shepherd, untouched and alive and able to pee. -- Dean Koontz
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If coincidence can give, it can take. -- Dean Koontz
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Destiny struggles to reassert the pattern that was meant to be. -- Dean Koontz
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There is no adult terror equivalent to what an innocent child experiences when first confronted with the truth that evil is not merely a figment of fairy tales, that it walks the world in countless forms, and that what it seeks most aggressively is the destruction of the innocent. -- Dean Koontz
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Life ... it's like gettin' a blueberry muffin in a coffeeshop when what you ordered was the apricot-nut. There aren't any apricots or nuts in it, and you can get tied up in knots just thinkin' about what you're missin', when the smarter thing to do is realize that blueberries have a nice taste, too. -- Dean Koontz
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Between two of the joists, backlit by a bare dust-coated bulb in a white ceramic socket, a fat spider danced from string to string, plucking from its silken harp a music beyond human hearing. Bibi -- Dean Koontz
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Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing the pain without extracting the thorn that caused the agony. -- Dean Koontz
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Believing isn't wishing, Grady. What you know with your heart is the only thing you really ever know. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd had much practice turning my mind away from certain memories of my childhood. I could quickly dial her remembered voice from a whisper to a silence. -- Dean Koontz
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Blood has an oder faint but distinct, of conceit and modesty, of courage and cowardice, of charity and greed, of faith and doubt, in short the fragrance of what we might have been and the smell of what we are ... -- Dean Koontz
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The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster. -- Dean Koontz
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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore. -- Dean Koontz
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When I function in only one mode or the other, I am denying half myself, half my potential. -- Dean Koontz
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Her lips were the texture of a dream, & her body against his felt like destiny. -- Dean Koontz
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A species that can blind itself to truth, that can plunge so enthusiastically along roads that lead nowhere but to tragedy, is sometimes amusing in its recklessness... -- Dean Koontz
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When one day ends, the next begins, for in this infinite universe there is no final conclusion to anything, definitely not to hope. -- Dean Koontz
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Some felt that perhaps in his past lay a tragedy with which he had never been able to make his peace, that the only companion with which he felt comfortable was sorrow. -- Dean Koontz
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It's a world of sorrow, Oddie, because we make it so. -- Dean Koontz
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Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman. -- Dean Koontz
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Son, this is the United States of America. Some would say it's unconstitutional to try to prevent psychopaths from fulfilling their potential. -- Dean Koontz
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In eighty-six years, child, I've learned the world is a far more mysterious place than most people realize and that every moment of life is woven through with meaning. -- Dean Koontz
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Rupert Clockenwall seemed to have been too bland a soul to come back from the grave on a haunt. -- Dean Koontz
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But just when a man expects he's earned the littlest bit of milk and honey, the world throws a load of horseshit at him. -- Dean Koontz
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Although words are the world and were the birthing of the world, there are no words to express what I felt at that moment, no words for the dimensions of my joy, for the great buoyancy that overcame my spirit, for the depth of my gratitude, for the brightness of my hope. -- Dean Koontz
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it. -- Dean Koontz
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On the other hand, dogs eat with gusto, play with exuberance, work happily when given the opportunity, surrender themselves to the wonder and the mystery of their world, and love extravagantly. -- Dean Koontz
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Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul. -- Dean Koontz
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The stakes were suddenly so high that we wanted out of the game. When you're playing poker with the devil, however, no one leaves the table before he does. -- Dean Koontz
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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. -- Dean Koontz
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Keep busy, Granny Sugars used to say, even if with poker, fighting, and fast cars, because idleness will get you in worse trouble. -- Dean Koontz
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Death was everywhere, he was legion, and you couldn't escape his attention, but in some places he manifested in greater numbers than in others. -- Dean Koontz
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He had to lie to himself about life, pretend it was less hard than it really was, and then press forward by one slippery means or another, all the while deluding himself into believing that he was conquering the world. -- Dean Koontz
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To you of great faith, I am the product of your wisdom and the guarantor of your immortality. -- Dean Koontz
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Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins. -- Dean Koontz
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. -- Dean Koontz
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I'm black, blind, seriously smart, and sensitive. No age would be easy for me. At least the culture had culture then, it had style. -- Dean Koontz
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I pushed the door inward. It moved as smoothly, as silently as the mechanism of a well-crafted, spring-loaded trap. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe if everything was beautiful, nothing would be.
People saw one thing, they swooned over it. They saw this other thing, they pounded it with sticks.
Maybe there had to be variety for life to work. Swoon over everything, you get bored. Beat everything with a stick-boring. -- Dean Koontz
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They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs. -- Dean Koontz
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Any town can die without actually drying up and blowing away. It can be as dead as a ghost town even with people still living in it." Gazing -- Dean Koontz
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In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too. -- Dean Koontz
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Every journey has a destination, known or unknown. -- Dean Koontz
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Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid. -- Dean Koontz
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Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along. -- Dean Koontz
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Life had not taught me to distrust ministers, but it had taught me to trust no one more than dogs. -- Dean Koontz
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To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not. -- Dean Koontz
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You've got today, and there's all of time and all the world in today. -- Dean Koontz
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Is it scarier than Jocko's teddy bear being full of spiders waiting for bedtime so they can crawl in his ears when he sleeps and spin a web in his brain and turn him into a spider slave? -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes complex and difficult moral choices are decided less by reason and by right than by sentiment. Perhaps such decisions are paving stones on the road to Hell; if so, my route is well paved, and the welcoming committee all ready knows my name. -- Dean Koontz
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Time was the lubricant that allowed the mechanism of the universe to function smoothly. -- Dean Koontz
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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment. -- Dean Koontz
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I imagined a life that turned out to be pretty much exactly like the one I've had. That fascinates me endlessly. I wake up many mornings, and it almost wouldn't surprise me if I woke up from it and it was all a dream. -- Dean Koontz
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what might have looked like courage proved to be a deficit of common sense and an excess of self-importance, too strong a faith in his genius and superiority - not courage at all, but the rash actions of an ordinary narcissist incapable of imagining that he might fail. -- Dean Koontz
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Not funny ha ha, funny weird -- Dean Koontz
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One door away from heaven
And the key is ours to lose.
One door away from heaven
But oh, the entry dues. -- Dean Koontz
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I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is. -- Dean Koontz
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You keep a secret from those closest to you, even with the -- Dean Koontz
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Alliteration seems to offend people. -- Dean Koontz
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That is not merely a central tragedy of human existence: It is also the political history of the world. -- Dean Koontz
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He'll also cut you some slack if you're astonishingly stupid in an amusing fashion. Granny claimed that this explains why uncountable millions of breathtakingly stupid people get along just fine in life. -- Dean Koontz
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With a cry of alarm, he bolted to the bathroom and made it with not a second to spare. He seemed to be on the throne long enough to have witnessed the rise and fall of an empire. -- Dean Koontz
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In the film industry, especially in the TV branch, there is a widespread contempt for the viewing public, which explains why the great majority of films are boring and stupid. -- Dean Koontz
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Paper clip. Ping. Disaster. Colonel Bowie is down. Colonel Bowie is down! The Mexican Army is now leaderless. Capone gloats. -- Dean Koontz
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Words are plastic these days. Small loans made to desperate people at exorbitant interest rates are called payday advances. A cheesy hotel paired with a seedy casino is called a resort. Any assemblage of frenetic images, bad music, and incoherent plot is called a major motion picture. -- Dean Koontz
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When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee. -- Dean Koontz
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Hope is the destination that we seek.
Love is the road that leads to hope.
Courage is the motor that drives us.
We travel out of darkness into faith. -- Dean Koontz
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With lead he shaded love into the woman's eyes. -- Dean Koontz
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I had not asked to be born. Only to be loved. -- Dean Koontz
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Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved ... -- Dean Koontz
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I am an optimist about our species. I assume God is, too, for otherwise He would have scrubbed us off the planet a long time ago and would have started over. -- Dean Koontz
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We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self interest. -- Dean Koontz
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If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas -- Dean Koontz
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I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts. -- Dean Koontz
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In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph. -- Dean Koontz
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Although the constant shadow of certain death looms over every day, the pleasures and joys of life can be so fine and deeply affecting that the heart is nearly stilled by astonishment. -- Dean Koontz
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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work. -- Dean Koontz
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Of course, in the process, you must never do harm to others in any serious way, or you'll cease to amuse Him. Then payment comes due for promises you didn't keep. -- Dean Koontz
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To do...what you feel sure is right and in the aid of justice, you sometimes have to do things that...make you wonder if in fact you are the good man that you like to believe you are. -- Dean Koontz
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When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on. -- Dean Koontz
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Ignorance isn't bliss, but sometimes ignorance makes it possible for us to sleep at night. -- Dean Koontz
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On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from. -- Dean Koontz
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I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary. -- Dean Koontz
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you. -- Dean Koontz
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Regardless of what our Creator intended us to be, what we have become is what we are. -- Dean Koontz
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If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. -- Dean Koontz
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On her deathbed ... I tell her she is as good a soul as I have ever met or hope to meet, that she is an angel in the flesh, and that I will speak her name to God every night of my life before I go to sleep. -- Dean Koontz
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There will be something very wrong with any place we go. -- Dean Koontz
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Intuition is the highest form of knowledge. What we learn from others can be mistaught by those not a fraction as knowledgeable as they pretend or by those who are propagandists with agendas. We are born with intuition, however, which includes the natural law, a sense of right and wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. -- Dean Koontz
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Why I love him is, I don't know, because he seems very brave and kind and sweet. All that stuff but something else, too. I don't know what something else, but he's different somehow, and what I'm trying to say is it's a good kind of difference, whatever it is. -- Dean Koontz
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Edmund Burke provided the answer in 1795: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. -- Dean Koontz
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As for self-deceit, most people find it as essential for survival as air. You rarely indulge in it. -- Dean Koontz
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It seems reckless, even perverse, to spend so much time and effort nurturing such a deadly thing ... Ernie and Pooka seek to understand death and to master their fear of it by domesticating it in the form of the brugmansia. -- Dean Koontz
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No matter what happens, disaster piled on calamity, no matter what, everything will be okay in the long run. -- Dean Koontz
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In my bones, I know that I am not long for this world. -- Dean Koontz
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Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery. -- Dean Koontz
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Sleep is a kind of peace, and I have not yet earned peace. -- Dean Koontz
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Holy men tell us life is a mystery.
They embrace that concept happily.
But some mysteries bite and bark
and come to get you in the dark. -- Dean Koontz
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A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes. -- Dean Koontz
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Anyway," he said, "if somebody doesn't belong in the world, there's no door they can throw him out. They can't take the world away from him and put him somewhere different. The worst thing they can do is kill him. That's all. -- Dean Koontz
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She has these dark eyes as deep as galaxies. It's easy to get lost in them. -- Dean Koontz
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In the hollow steel-lined bin, my unfortunate eruption resonated such that it would have humiliated me if my first concern had been social acceptance. My first concern, however, was survival. At the moment, I didn't have the capacity for embarrassment because terror filled me. -- Dean Koontz
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The World itself is a wonderland, young man, as you well know. -- Dean Koontz
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If she fully embraced life with all its conflicts, she would suffer a breakdown. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes enlightenment descends upon you when you least expect it ... -- Dean Koontz
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Although enlightened people know that an extreme phobia wasn't a form of madness, hey could not help but regard it as odd. -- Dean Koontz
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It had sure felt like death, but then everything since had felt like life. -- Dean Koontz
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Books are packaged dreams. -- Dean Koontz
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There are people who want everybody dead. When you get over being surprised about that, you have a high amazement threshold. -- Dean Koontz
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life is more than intelect -- Dean Koontz
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In the wind, the trees, like agitated lions preparing to roar, shook their great green manes. -- Dean Koontz
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All this is just a place, she said. And sometimes such a lonely one. -- Dean Koontz
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I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on. -- Dean Koontz
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Adversity breeds toughness, and the tough succeed. And survive. -- Dean Koontz
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One thing we've noticed is these days people see all kinds of things they don't want to see, so they go blind." "Selectively blind. -- Dean Koontz
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With time, however, life had become too real, -- Dean Koontz
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He said that we of the hidden had our burdens, but those who lived in the open carried far heavier burdens than ours, which was true. -- Dean Koontz
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Still abiding under the same vault of stars that were, to her, filled with wonder and mystery; but that were, to him, nothing more than distant balls of fire and cataclysm -- Dean Koontz
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid. -- Dean Koontz
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When I'm in the middle of a book it can go up from there. When you're putting in those hours, the real world kind of fades and the world you're creating becomes almost more real to you than the outside world. -- Dean Koontz
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Most people indulged in their vices and clung to their virtues based on their responses to temptation and conflict, not because some Other within them drove their behavior. -- Dean Koontz
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A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness -- Dean Koontz
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Every talent is unearned, however, and with it comes a solemn obligation to use it as fully and as wisely as possible. -- Dean Koontz
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I feel like I've been sliding all day. -- Dean Koontz
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Irrational fear feeds on itself and grows. You must deny it. -- Dean Koontz
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What will happen will happen. There is time for miracles until there is no more time, but time has no end. -- Dean Koontz
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All of us are cowards at some time in our lives... -- Dean Koontz
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The cataract of grief is a longer drop than Niagara, and I guess I've not reached the river of acceptance at the bottom. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live. -- Dean Koontz
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He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul. -- Dean Koontz
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She wasn't clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be. -- Dean Koontz
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The more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know. -- Dean Koontz
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When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation. -- Dean Koontz
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What we fear too much we often bring to pass. -- Dean Koontz
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I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. -- Dean Koontz
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The bloody-minded murder those whom they envy, and for what they covet. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes she liked to search for animals and faces in the shapen clouds of a summer day. Flames were too quick and fluid for the eye to glimpse the suggestion of any presence other than fire, -- Dean Koontz
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were half dead from too little water, -- Dean Koontz
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Nevertheless, I quickly pulled my feet onto the seat and would have gathered my petticoats tightly around me if I had been wearing any. After -- Dean Koontz
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Each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing else but what we can do best. -- Dean Koontz
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In the folklore of the British Isles, a bodach is a vile beast that slithers down chimneys at night and carries off children who misbehave. Rather like Inland Revenue agents. -- Dean Koontz
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Futility is in the eye of the beholder. -- Dean Koontz
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Like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium. -- Dean Koontz
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I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. -- Dean Koontz
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She understood at least as well as I did what corruption and pitiless cruelty might be hidden behind the masks that some people wore. - Addison Goodheart pg 93 -- Dean Koontz
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The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor -- Dean Koontz
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Most people care more about their appearance than they do about the condition of their souls. -- Dean Koontz
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He once told me that an August evening was "as hot as three toads in a Cuisinart," a comparison that left me blinking two days later. -- Dean Koontz
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It's huge ears drooped over its face, and it brushed them back with one paw, then rose on its hind feet. The Pillsbury Doughboy might have something like this as his pet. -- Dean Koontz
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Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. -- Dean Koontz
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There's something mystical about perfect hash browns, something that stirs the soul, -- Dean Koontz
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Simplify, simplify. That was the secret to a happy life. -- Dean Koontz
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In times as turbulent as these, but also in the seeming humdrum of daily life, which always proved to be more meaningful and consequential in retrospect, each of us needed to rely on people of constant character and truths that were immutable. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be. -- Dean Koontz
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That and loneliness. -- Dean Koontz
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He can't always watch us directly, ... with his fullest attention every minute, but He's always at least watching from the corner of his eye. -- Dean Koontz
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I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book. -- Dean Koontz
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I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it. -- Dean Koontz
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When my time is up, I want to cross a River Styx of pure root beer.
- Jilly
Page 30 -- Dean Koontz
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I was like a thought slipping through the fissures ... -- Dean Koontz
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If these people harbored secrets that might destroy them, inviting strangers to stay in Roseland was self-destructive. -- Dean Koontz
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The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. -- Dean Koontz
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It isn't possible to smile too much, odd one."
"Did you ever see the Joker in Batman? -- Dean Koontz
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Greater self-awareness," he'd told Rocky on a night when sleep wouldn't come, "doesn't make a species any happier, pal. If it did, we'd have fewer psychiatrists and barrooms ... -- Dean Koontz
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Its immeasurably easier to live in a world that's all surfaces, that means nothing and demands nothing of you. -- Dean Koontz
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If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench. -- Dean Koontz
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I said what might have been a bad word meaning excrement, but I hope that I used a polite synonym. -- Dean Koontz
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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience. -- Dean Koontz
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There's always a parade, Howie. When it's something you can't ever join but only watch, then it's a parade -- Dean Koontz
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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive. -- Dean Koontz
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I rarely drink, but there are times when even drinking too much is not enough. -- Dean Koontz
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Even if God exists, does He know that you do? -- Dean Koontz
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Your past is my Future. -- Dean Koontz
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I guess with artificial intelligence, just like with natural intelligence, there can be a way-creepy side. -- Dean Koontz
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Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished. -- Dean Koontz
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You know what's wrong with humanity? ... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it. -- Dean Koontz
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I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. -- Dean Koontz
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Curtis' mother always said that the better you know others, the better you will know yourself, and that in the fullest sharing of experience, we learn the wisdom of the world. -- Dean Koontz
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Life without meaning
cannot be borne.
We find a mission
to which we're sworn
or answer the call
of Death's dark horn.
Without a gleaning
of purpose in life,
we have no vision,
we live in strife,
or let blood fall
on a suicide knife. -- Dean Koontz
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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it. -- Dean Koontz
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Einstein vigorously wagged his tail. Thoughtfully, Nora said, "Escaped ... " Travis knew what she must be thinking. To Einstein, he said, "They'll be looking for you, won't they?" The dog whined and wagged his tail - which Travis interpreted as a "yes" with a special edge of anxiety. -- Dean Koontz
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Trouble was coming, sure, but it's always coming, and meanwhile it's best to live with a smile. -- Dean Koontz
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Are you prepared for the first wound? -- Dean Koontz
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The blend she preferred was fragrant and so rich in caffeine that the fumes alone would cure narcolepsy. -- Dean Koontz
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GUILT SPILLS ITSELF IN FEAR OF BEING SPILT, -- Dean Koontz
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The ineffable would not be ineffable if it could be described. -- Dean Koontz
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If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe I'm needy, neurotic, paranoid. Under the circumstances, of course, if I weren't needy, neurotic, and paranoid, I'd obviously be psychotic. -- Dean Koontz
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The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. -- Dean Koontz
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The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said.
"And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs. -- Dean Koontz
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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work. -- Dean Koontz
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She and I seem to be more alike than not, acutely aware of the strangeness of the world and charmed by it's mysteries. -- Dean Koontz
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet -- Dean Koontz
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Strange how the deepest part of us isn't able to speak more clearly to the part of us that lives only here in the shallows of the world. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing before its time, son. Everything in its own time, to its own schedule. -- Dean Koontz
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Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. -- Dean Koontz
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I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. -- Dean Koontz
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People sometimes speak in code, often without realizing they are doing so, as much a mystery to themselves as others. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe the devil in human beings isn't the reflection of the devil, perhaps the devil is only a reflection of the savagery and brutality of our kind. Maybe what we've done is create the devil in our own image -- Dean Koontz
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When you realize you're fighting a fundamental law of the universe, it's best to surrender to nature. -- Dean Koontz
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Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. -- Dean Koontz
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The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact. -- Dean Koontz
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. -- Dean Koontz
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Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart. -- Dean Koontz
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Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other. -- Dean Koontz
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If I ever sold my soul, it'd be for you. -- Dean Koontz
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Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. -- Dean Koontz
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I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not. -- Dean Koontz
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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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There's no tragedy in nature, only process
and therefore no triumph, either. -- Dean Koontz
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On the night that I was born, my paternal grandfather, Josef Tock, made ten predictions that shaped my life. Then he died in the very minute that my mother gave birth to me. -- Dean Koontz
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The only way we'll be saved is if we save ourselves. Good people can't triumph over bad people just by being good; they have to act. -- Dean Koontz
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Frightening numbers of people were either easy to deceive or wished ardently to submit to any belief system, no matter how delusional, that reassured them and justified their hatreds. -- Dean Koontz
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Being a bad guy was easy, being a hero was hard. -- Dean Koontz
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In the end, it's all about perseverance. -- Dean Koontz
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If we rely upon the tao with which we're born, we always know what is the right thing to do in any situation, the good thing not for our bank accounts or for ourselves, but for our souls. We are tempted from the tao by self-interest, by base emotions and passions. -- Dean Koontz
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He, too, had been glassed-in for a long time, by choice. Now and then he had lifted a hammer to shatter through to something, but he had never struck the blow because he didn't know what he wanted on the other side of the glass. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe if the death had occurred on the other side of the street, I'd be watching from here with different kids, acting as foolish. Maybe the difference between horror and holiday was just the width of an ordinary street. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret. Odd Thomas -- Dean Koontz
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake. -- Dean Koontz
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For the likes of you, the path to happiness is one mean son of a bitch of a path. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe they traveled into darkness eternal without protest because they lacked the imagination to envision anything else. -- Dean Koontz
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War was waged to make peace. Abuse was love. Welcome to the funhouse, where strange mirrors reflect the faces of hell. -- Dean Koontz
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The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one bleak and grotesque place after another, for you can imagine yourself into all kinds of paranoid delusions and even into madness. -- Dean Koontz
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. -- Dean Koontz
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I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational. -- Dean Koontz
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Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun. -- Dean Koontz
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We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which it must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness, and misery. -- Dean Koontz
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The world is a more mysterious place than it seems to be most of the time, when we're plodding along from breakfast to bedtime in a reassuringly familiar routine. -- Dean Koontz
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Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death. -- Dean Koontz
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Why would someone cut out his heart?"
Michael shrugged. "Souvenir. Sexual gratification. Dinner. -- Dean Koontz
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She turned more heads than a coven of chiropractors. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd accept defeat. fighting doesn't preclude enduring.I can fight, and if fighting fails I can still endure. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work. People are doing the Devil's work everywhere you go; there's no avoiding it unless you go live on a mountaintop somewhere, a hundred miles from everyone. -- Dean Koontz
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. -- Dean Koontz
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Proceeding with caution and proceeding slowly are sometimes two different things. In certain circumstances, momentum could be more important than caution,
though it was never wise to dispense with wariness. -- Dean Koontz
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They come to me, and I receive them as the meat they are. -- Dean Koontz
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You're a poster boy for sincerity. You have all the guile of a lamb. -- Dean Koontz
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He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary. -- Dean Koontz
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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries. -- Dean Koontz
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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The rabid ferocity of his reaction had confirmed Mother's warnings, but I didn't yet comprehend the depth of the revulsion that I inspired or how relentless he would be in his determination to kill me. -- Dean Koontz
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Finally turning his head, he regarded me appraisingly, with contempt so thick that I expected to hear it drizzle to the floor with a spattering sound. -- Dean Koontz
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Even someone like Mrs. Bonnaventura, who had lived a mostly blameless life, when ushered into the awesome presence of the Creator of the infinite universe and also of the butterfly, would discover ten thousand fearsome new layers of meaning in the word humility. -- Dean Koontz
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Its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him -- Dean Koontz
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Everything is more than it seems, but nothing is as mysterious as it appears to be. -- Dean Koontz
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The less I have, the less I can lose. -- Dean Koontz
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Your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will ... -- Dean Koontz
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We must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith. -- Dean Koontz
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War," Pax said, "either dulls the mind to despair or sharpens it toward intuitive truths. -- Dean Koontz
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Don't mourn the death of monsters, dear. Celebrate the saving of the innocents. -- Dean Koontz
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But this animal's unadulterated joy in being alive was like a spotlight that pierced Travis's inner gloom and reminded him that life had a brighter side from which he had long ago turned away. -- Dean Koontz
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His voice had sounded as though he lived entirely on mayonnaise and butter but never quite cleared his throat of them; -- Dean Koontz
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I believe our recognition of reality's complex dimensions is a consequence of our solitude. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Snuggle down in my cocoon, be a butterfly soon. -- Dean Koontz
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Do not doubt the beauty of your heart. -- Dean Koontz
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I would die of lonely. -- Dean Koontz
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A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind. -- Dean Koontz
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Dentists and surgeons frequently used nitrous oxide as an anesthetic. Travis -- Dean Koontz
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There is hope for you yet.
-Einstein the Labrador Retriever via scrabble tiles -- Dean Koontz
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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives. -- Dean Koontz
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In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin. -- Dean Koontz
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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make. -- Dean Koontz
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Nobody's inherently bad, said Annamaria. It's all about the choices we make.
And the Deceiver, said Blossom, is always there to whisper the wrong choice in your ear. But I believe remorse can lead to redemption. -- Dean Koontz
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Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool -- Dean Koontz
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The world falls apart from time to time, and madness happens. -- Dean Koontz
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I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those. -- Dean Koontz
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To an extent, his good looks would insulate him from suspicion, for in this new century, image trumped substance and appearance often mattered more than truth. -- Dean Koontz
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That below the main stage were unknown others on which different dramas played out, secretly affecting the lives of everyone upstairs? She -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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I don't know whether to call a medical doctor or psychiatrist," she said to Bailey, "but I refuse to call an exorcist. -- Dean Koontz
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I swung up and into this most inadequate of hidey-holes and lowered the lid, closing myself in the feed bin with the hope that its name wouldn't prove to be as apt now as it had been in the past. -- Dean Koontz
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The why of the mind's existence and the how of its profound capacity to reason - especially its penchant for moral reasoning - will by their very nature remain as mysterious as whatever lies outside of time. -- Dean Koontz
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. -- Dean Koontz
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Most universities are no longer temples of knowledge, but of power, and true moderns worship there. -- Dean Koontz
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Death is frequently the reward for the reckless and the timid alike, -- Dean Koontz
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Humanity is capable of any atrocity," she said. "But when you understand the extent of this cruelty, the unprecedented viciousness, the immense scale of the horror, it seems beyond the power of mere people to conceive and execute. It seems demonic. -- Dean Koontz
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Where does fiction end and reality begin? -- Dean Koontz
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There's never any humongous next draft. I know a writer who every time he finished a novel - you would know his name very well - but his editor would come and live with him for a month. And they would go through the manuscript together. -- Dean Koontz
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He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it. -- Dean Koontz
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If this was the best wine that Jim and Nora could afford or, worse, if this was their idea of a good wine - well, sadly, then they were better off dead. -- Dean Koontz
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We yearn for tomorrow and the progress it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was the progress in it? -- Dean Koontz
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Acting is a marvelous profession ... If you can spend enough time playing other people, you don't have to think too much about your own character and motivations. -- Dean Koontz
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I'm Odd but I'm not nuts. -- Dean Koontz
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We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. -- Dean Koontz
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One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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Here in the summer desert, winter found my blood -- Dean Koontz
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His resiliency was not the resiliency of the dumb but of a lamb who can remember hurt but cannot sustain the anger or the bitterness that brittles the heart. -- Dean Koontz
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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain. -- Dean Koontz
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If patterns exist in our seemingly patternless lives - and they do - then the law of harmony insists that the most harmonious of all patterns, circles within circles, will most often assert itself. -- Dean Koontz
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Her eyes were celadon saucers but bottomless, of such great depth that she could take in the knowledge of whole worlds and have room in that gaze for still more. -- Dean Koontz
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Man, I like you. I wish you could like me. -- Dean Koontz
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Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world. -- Dean Koontz
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Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe to his nemesis, the world was a stage, reality was a fraud, and all was artifice. How -- Dean Koontz
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They excrete in the same water where they eat, and they eat in the semen-clouded water where they fornicate. Fish are disgusting. -- Dean Koontz
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We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time. -- Dean Koontz
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should know. Though -- Dean Koontz
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Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. -- Dean Koontz
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Death is part of life. If you think about it, you were born into a world populated by the dead, because -- Dean Koontz
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The windows were heavily draped, and the milk-pitcher moon couldn't find gaps through which to pour itself. All was blackness on blackness. -- Dean Koontz
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Without trust, there can be no tranquil resting of the mind. -- Dean Koontz
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After the church ceased to exist, an outfit calling itself the First Amendment Protection Society, Inc. - the largest operator of adult bookstores, topless bars, Internet porn sites, and karaoke cocktail lounges in the United States - intimidated -- Dean Koontz
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What matters is the day at hand and what we do with it, one day at a time, some butter-side-down days, some butter-side-up. And what should we do with the day? -- Dean Koontz
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THE WORLD HAS GONE MAD. YOU MIGHT have argued against that contention twenty years ago, but if you argue it in our time, you only prove that you, too, live in delusion. In -- Dean Koontz
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A truly nice smile combined with self-control can take a person a long way. -- Dean Koontz
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Pico Mundo is a prosperous town. But no degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity. -- Dean Koontz
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Like me, you are human, after all, and we know what a joy and terror that is. -- Dean Koontz
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When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope -- Dean Koontz
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The vending machines hummed softly, as though mulling over some grave decision... -- Dean Koontz
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To a predator, fear indicates weakness. -- Dean Koontz
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You must never lie to yourself, or you are left with no one to trust. -- Dean Koontz
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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. -- Dean Koontz
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Melancholy can be seductive when it's twined with self-pity. -- Dean Koontz
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What makes humanity beautiful is our free will, our individuality, our endless striving in spite of our imperfection.
BY THE LIGHT OF THE MOON
Chapter 27 Page 214 -- Dean Koontz
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I am basically a pretty good autodidact. I can teach myself things. -- Dean Koontz
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Some big guys, they think struttin' the muscle will put your tail between your legs, but all they got is strut, they ain't got the guts to back up the brag -- Dean Koontz
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Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination. -- Dean Koontz
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Every failure hollows out my heart a little further, and no success is able to refill any of that emptiness. -- Dean Koontz
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Anyway, knowledge isn't wisdom, and we aren't here just to stuff ourselves with facts and figures. We are given this life so we might earn the next; the gift is a chance to grow in spirit, and knowledge is one of the many nutrients that facilitate our growth. -- Dean Koontz
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Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth. -- Dean Koontz
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The doll twitched. Its head turned slightly toward Tommy. Its green eye fixed on him. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe you think you don't need help. Sometimes, I think I don't need it, either. But we all do. We all need help. -- Dean Koontz
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Live you can evade; death you cannot. -- Dean Koontz
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I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [ ... ] Fear implies respect. -- Dean Koontz
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He had no credit cards. This made him suspicious in a country that not only looked to the future but lived on the earnings from it. -- Dean Koontz
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As a writer, Bibi, you could be a doctor of the soul. -- Dean Koontz
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I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet. -- Dean Koontz
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There is nothing fatherly about time and what it does to us, either. -- Dean Koontz
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Although he never speaks of how or what or why, I know that his childhood was difficult, that his parents broke his heart. Books and excess poundage are his insulation against pain. -- Dean Koontz
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Although Grandpa never put it in words for me, one thing I learned from him was that being admired gives you more power than being feared. -- Dean Koontz
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You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find. -- Dean Koontz
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It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed. -- Dean Koontz
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You've got to remember whatever happens-it's only life, we all get through it -- Dean Koontz
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Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. -- Dean Koontz
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Be of the world and in the world and above the world all at once. Be you and only you, -- Dean Koontz
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An elevator. The doors of the elevator were gone, as were the cab and the lift mechanism, sold for reuse or for scrap. -- Dean Koontz
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My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty. -- Dean Koontz
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A good dog is one of the best things of all to be. -- Dean Koontz
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hope; like calcium, hope was part of the structure of her bones. -- Dean Koontz
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Expressed in Latin, it would have read Exi, impie, exi, scelerate, exi cum omnia fallacia tua, which translates into English as "Depart, impious one, depart, accursed one, depart with all your deceits. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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pessimism is strictly for people who are over-educated and unimaginative. -- Dean Koontz
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it! -- Dean Koontz
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Living in a monastery, even as a guest rather than a monk, you have more opportunities than you might have elsewhere to see the world as it is, instead of through the shadow that you cast upon it. -- Dean Koontz
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When Mary Shelley took a local legend based on truth and crafted fiction from it, she'd made Victor a tragic figure and killed him off. He understood her dramatic purpose for giving him a death scene, but he loathed her for portraying him as tragic and as a failure. -- Dean Koontz
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The sun was hardly risen, but already time was running out. -- Dean Koontz
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I thought you married me for my looks, my sensitivity, and my fabulous bedroom stamina."
Carson said, "Lucky for you, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But I will acknowledge you really do an exhaustive job cleaning the bedroom. -- Dean Koontz
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on errands every day, if only to pick -- Dean Koontz
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Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing. -- Dean Koontz
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When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. -- Dean Koontz
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He looked as if nothing hard in the world had touched him ... -- Dean Koontz
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You ever feel the emptiness? You ever feel an emptiness so bad, you've got to fill it or you'll die, but you don't know where the emptiness is or what in the name of God you're supposed to fill it WITH? -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes I am hampered by having a moral code, but I have it nonetheless, like a burr under the brain, with no way to pluck it out. -- Dean Koontz
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Everyone talks about justice, but there can be no justice where there is no truth, and these are times when truth is seldom recognized and often despised. -- Dean Koontz
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Can I assume you're sober?"
"Nope, had two diet root beers. -- Dean Koontz
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos. -- Dean Koontz
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In the beginning was the word. Before all else, the word. So we speak as if words matter, because they do. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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Death was driving an emerald-green Lexus. -- Dean Koontz
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Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am. -- Dean Koontz
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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so. -- Dean Koontz
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The chief characteristics of my childhood were an aching loneliness and the daily struggle to avoid a bleakness of spirit that unrelieved loneliness can foment. -- Dean Koontz
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The past was a trove of hard-won wisdom. -- Dean Koontz
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Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which. -- Dean Koontz
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Ideas shouldn't matter more than people." He -- Dean Koontz
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A sorrowing sky, the days and nights washed by the grief of angels ... -- Dean Koontz
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Until then, there is joy, which by the way does not, as was once thought, require contrast with fear and pain to keep its zing. -- Dean Koontz
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Her imagination was such that she could hear the song of the bird when it was still but a yolk in an egg. -- Dean Koontz
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The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world.
Odd Thomas -- Dean Koontz
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In those days, cigarette companies could still advertise on television, but lawyers couldn't; some changes are for the better, and others are not. -- Dean Koontz
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Some place existed before the universe, exists outside of it now, and will exist when the universe collapses back upon itself. In that mysterious place, outside of time, Stormy waits for me. -- Dean Koontz
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions. -- Dean Koontz
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real father, his only father." I was -- Dean Koontz
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We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans. -- Dean Koontz
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All will be well, if we do what is right -- Dean Koontz
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He's a man," Themla said.
"I guess that explains it."
"Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike. -- Dean Koontz
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That was when you discovered she'd recently begun using PCP - what's sometimes called 'angel dust' on the street. -- Dean Koontz
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Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. -- Dean Koontz
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We are buried when we're born. The world is a place of graves occupied and graves potential. Life is what happens while we wait for our appointment with the mortician. -- Dean Koontz
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Only time conquers time and its burdens. -- Dean Koontz
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When social forces press for the rejection of age-old Truth, then those who reject it will seek meaning in their own truth. These truths will rarely be Truth at all; they will be only collections of personal preferences and prejudices. -- Dean Koontz
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I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did. -- Dean Koontz
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She had appeared calmer to them -- Dean Koontz
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I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times. -- Dean Koontz
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Every place is the same place in the end. -- Dean Koontz
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Be afraid in proportion to the threat. -- Dean Koontz
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Darkness doesn't fall at a predictable schedule. Darkness can overwhelm you any time of the day, as you know well. -- Dean Koontz
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Less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea. -- Dean Koontz
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If evil geniuses are so rare, why do so many bad people get away with so many crimes against their fellow citizens, and, when they become leaders of nations, against humanity? -- Dean Koontz
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Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal. Even I, in my terrible difference, wanted nothing less than purpose and meaning. Chapter 8, pgs 35-36 -- Dean Koontz
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It was music of a kind, at the same time soothing and invigorating, such a human place and time, when no one texted at the table or had an Internet to surf while they ate or carried a cell phone the ring of which could never be ignored. -- Dean Koontz
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People go through life failing to see all sorts of amazing things because they aren't expecting to see them. -- Dean Koontz
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When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. -- Dean Koontz
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What most people call truth is merely the surface, and under it lies a great depth of truth that they do not perceive. -- Dean Koontz
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Love scrubs the worst stains clean. Anyway, there can be no retreat in the face of evil, only resistance. And commitment. -- Dean Koontz
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With his eyes squinted to slits, Donny reminds me of Clint Eastwood, if Clint Eastwood were eight inches shorter, thirty pounds heavier, less good-looking, with male-pattern baldness, and badly scarred. -- Dean Koontz
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Not all popular novelists are good,
but all good novelists are,
sooner or later, popular. -- Dean Koontz
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Rational optimism is required of anyone who hopes to be a survivor, -- Dean Koontz
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Everything now depends on mutual trust, Addison Goodheart. Sit down or go. There can be no third choice. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. -- Dean Koontz
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The world is beautiful and glorious. Humanity can be mean, and turn away from what's good. -- Dean Koontz
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Human beings not only can't bear too much reality, we flee from reality when someone doesn't force us close enough to the fire to feel the heat on our faces. -- Dean Koontz
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She sat watching the street and its businesses melt away in the thick tides of mist, partially re-form, and melt away again, over and over, as if some celestial power had ordered the end of the world but kept having second thoughts. -- Dean Koontz
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be. -- Dean Koontz
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I do not wish to shine. I prefer shadows, quiet, periods of solitude. I do not wish to be noticed. If one is all but invisible to others, one cannot be envied, inspire anger or suspicion. Near invisibility is a way of life that I recommend. -- Dean Koontz
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I couldn't make up anything as weird as what is. -- Dean Koontz
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Instinct is an animal faculty, independent of instruction and reasoning, but far inferior to intuition, which is a grace unique to humanity. -- Dean Koontz
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Truly evil people aren't given the license to linger. The fact that you've been here so long since death means you don't have any reason to fear what comes next." As -- Dean Koontz
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Small-town boy meets big-time evil. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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As a teenager, I always intended to do my homework. But when the supplicant dead come to you for justice and you also have occasional prophetic dreams, life tends to interfere with your studies. -- Dean Koontz
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Life had been hard on this girl, Jacob, but she had enough courage for an army. -- Dean Koontz
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The killer walked with a light step that could be achieved only by someone not weighed down with a conscience, and went out into the night's embrace. -- Dean Koontz
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We spend nine months in a nurturing darkness before we're born, and we aspire to the highest of all places when we die. -- Dean Koontz
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Iris does not believe the world loves her. She wants to believe it, but she doesn't, she can't. She doesn't know why she can't. -- Dean Koontz
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I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing. -- Dean Koontz
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...up to no good - and pleased about it. -- Dean Koontz
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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better. -- Dean Koontz
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The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. -- Dean Koontz
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That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again. -- Dean Koontz
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The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do. -- Dean Koontz
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do. -- Dean Koontz
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[ ... ] she sees through yoy and knowsyour truest heart, but loves you anyway, [ ... ] -- Dean Koontz
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You've always mistaken my absolute self-assurance for profound thought. -- Dean Koontz
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With human beings, a natural death was a death with dignity. But animals were innocents, and as their stewards, people owed them mercy. -- Dean Koontz
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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance. -- Dean Koontz
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For a long time, she wept, not so much for him and not at all for herself, but for the condition of all things and for the way the world could be but is not. -- Dean Koontz
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I disliked guns, but I learned to use them. I had come to understand guns, that they were tools and that they were no more evil, in their essence, than pliers and wrenches. At times, they were a necessity. In a world of evil, they were often also a blessing. Now and then, as I've said, I was able to -- Dean Koontz
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tomorrow is a slave to yesterday. -- Dean Koontz
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Endeavor to live the life. -- Dean Koontz
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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. -- Dean Koontz
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The writer that you are, I guess you're used to being a kind of dictator, telling the characters in your stories what to do. -- Dean Koontz
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There are other worlds to sing in. -- Dean Koontz
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Desperation is energized despair, and despair is the abandonment of hope. -- Dean Koontz
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Between a man and woman in love, no lie is small or harmless. -- Dean Koontz
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Too much mystery is merely an annoyance. Too much adventure is exhausting. And a little terror goes a long way. -- Dean Koontz
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Asshole." "Your mother never taught you words like that." "You don't know my mother," she said thickly. -- Dean Koontz
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No matter what happens, everything will be all right in the long run.' -- Dean Koontz
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She drove slowly into town as the gold and rose fingers of the dawn reached toward fading stars that eluded them. -- Dean Koontz
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Your sixteen days to late you son of a bitch- Travis, Whatchers -- Dean Koontz
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The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them to be sure they understood what he meant: I WOULD DIE OF LONELY. -- Dean Koontz
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Guilt and shame have, until now, kept me silent on this issue. I am old enough, even if just twenty, to know that I have no logical reason to feel either guilt or shame, that I was the victim, not the victimizer. Yet I've been so long marinated in both emotions that they will forever flavor me. -- Dean Koontz
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Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul -- Dean Koontz
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Understanding wasn't always necessary, as long as you believed. -- Dean Koontz
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Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts". -- Dean Koontz
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern the truth, and could himself be more easily deceived. -- Dean Koontz
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Were you always such a snake," the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are? -- Dean Koontz
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Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that. -- Dean Koontz
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We get only one life. We shouldn't waste a day of it in anger. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing in this world, not even the most mundane moments of our lives, is without meaning, nor is any of it lost forever. -- Dean Koontz
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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it. -- Dean Koontz
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I will hold her hand at the end, and I will pass soon after, for we are one heart, and neither of us would be of use without the other. -- Dean Koontz
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I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. -- Dean Koontz
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The world is full of people who are eager to diminish you, to shame you, to put you in your place and to keep you down. If you embrace humility too fully, you are doing the bastards' work for them. -- Dean Koontz
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But by nature, the human heart yearns most for what it cannot have. -- Dean Koontz
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Gliomatosis cerebri. It originates in the connective cells of the brain and infiltrates quickly, deeply into surrounding tissue. -- Dean Koontz
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He saw that, without exception, human beings were driven by self-interest. -- Dean Koontz
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A body of work, therefore, reveals the intellectual and emotional progress of the writer, and is a map of his soul. It's both terrifying and liberating to consider this aspect of being a novelist. -- Dean Koontz
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Lem searched for the words to convey what he felt. As he found the language to describe what the dog had meant to him, his chest grew tight with emotion. -- Dean Koontz
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I was looking forward to having a halo. It would make such a convenient reading lamp. -- Dean Koontz
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's always about perseverance. -- Dean Koontz
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His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed. -- Dean Koontz
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We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other. -- Dean Koontz
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I knew what love felt like, for I had loved Father and, less powerfully -- Dean Koontz
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Mercy is a concept embraced by the weak, and I am not weak. -- Dean Koontz
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What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace. -- Dean Koontz
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In ecstasy, it is essentially not about sensation but about passion, and passion is not of the flesh but of the mind and heart. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing I could say or do would help her. Life is hard in a world gone wrong. -- Dean Koontz
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They found her with a nearly empty snifter of brandy on the nightstand, a book by her favorite novelist turned to the last page, and a smile on her face. -- Dean Koontz
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In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings. -- Dean Koontz
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Even the most exotic excursions can become tedious through repetition. -- Dean Koontz
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...at it's best fiction is medicine. -- Dean Koontz
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When we love someone, we're held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost. -- Dean Koontz
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Denial couldn't be maintained. -- Dean Koontz
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The pain was the risk of commitment. But nothing worth having could be had without risk. -- Dean Koontz
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You have a messiah complex, got to save the world. -- Dean Koontz
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Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. -- Dean Koontz
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Perhaps nothing in this broken world can be pure or of a piece, unfractured. -- Dean Koontz
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Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret. -- Dean Koontz
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Night has patterns that can be read
less by the living than by the dead.
-- Dean Koontz
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journeying through the fields of evil is the price we pay for free will, -- Dean Koontz
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Our Janice is gone, but you're still here, and your first allegiance should never be to the dead. -- Dean Koontz
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He found he was suffering from laugh-deficit disorder. -- Dean Koontz
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This is reality, tofu man, because reality is what we carry in our hearts, and my heart is full of beauty just for you. -- Dean Koontz
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We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.
We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed. -- Dean Koontz
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In the belly of Leviathan, Mr Thomas, one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. -- Dean Koontz
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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. -- Dean Koontz
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Nothing supernatural has ever harmed me. My wounds and losses have all be at the hands of human beings ... -- Dean Koontz
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Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still. -- Dean Koontz
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The hospital was drowned in the bottomless silence that fills -- Dean Koontz
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I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to remember where I had gone to bed. -- Dean Koontz
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The only way back is the way forward. -- Dean Koontz
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When you start life as a tumor with a brain, there's no where to go but up. -- Dean Koontz
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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed. -- Dean Koontz
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They say that necessity is the mother of invention, but it is also the grandmother of desperation. -- Dean Koontz
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I remembered reading that the sweat and breath of certifiable psychopaths have a subtle but distinctive chemical odor because of certain physiological conditions accompanying that mental disorder. Maybe her breath smelled of craziness. -- Dean Koontz
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Roosevelt was right when he said that we have nothing to fear itself. And our fear can only consume us when we face it alone. -- Dean Koontz
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I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system. -- Dean Koontz
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If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs. -- Dean Koontz
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells. -- Dean Koontz
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The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have. -- Dean Koontz
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Action. Action, shaped by intelligence and a moral perspective, is the answer to most problems. -- Dean Koontz
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Art is the only answer to chaos and the void. -- Dean Koontz
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Then perhaps you shouldn't sleep. The imagination has terrifying power. -- Dean Koontz
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Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex. -- Dean Koontz
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It is the purpose for which we exist. This reckless caring. -- Dean Koontz
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We are fictioneers. -- Dean Koontz
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Maybe it was this: The name of a person marked for murder is just a name, but the face makes real the cost of violence, for if we have the nerve to look, we can see in any face our own vulnerability. -- Dean Koontz
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Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect. -- Dean Koontz
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What does worry accomplish, except to breed more worry". -- Dean Koontz
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Easy hope was usually false hope. -- Dean Koontz
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News is never all the news, only what they want to show you, -- Dean Koontz
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In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to. -- Dean Koontz
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A broken thing can't fix itself. -- Dean Koontz
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Intuition is seeing with the soul. -- Dean Koontz
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing. -- Dean Koontz
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I love you more than life. -- Dean Koontz
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I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well. -- Dean Koontz
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As I turned to leave the tent, she said, "Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you."
I said, "She never has. -- Dean Koontz
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Loop me in, odd one. -- Dean Koontz
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Wonder admits to the existence of mystery ... recognition of mystery allows the possibility of Truth. -- Dean Koontz
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Although there was much I wanted to say, I knew that I should not. His mind and heart were out of alignment, and only he could bring them into harmony. -- Dean Koontz
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares. -- Dean Koontz
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Sometimes you have to break a rule to save the system. -- Dean Koontz
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Because those who cower forget how to stand and, in time, can only crawl. -- Dean Koontz
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She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs. -- Dean Koontz