Dean Koontz Quotes

#1. We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong.

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#2. 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.

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#3. 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.

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#4. 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.

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#5. The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

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#6. 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

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#7. 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.

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#8. Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together
forever.

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

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#10. 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.

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#11. You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.

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#12. Falling in love could be like falling off a cliff, no water below but plenty of rocks.

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#13. I'd rather live the now than talk about the was.

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#14. 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.

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#15. The Complete Stories by Flannery O'Connor

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

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#17. 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.

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#18. 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

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#19. I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.

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#20. 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.

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#21. What year these events transpired is of no consequence. Where they occured is not important. The time is always, and the place is everywhere.

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#22. All will be well, if we do what is right

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#23. Every day in every life is of the most profound importance.

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#24. 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.

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#25. Malevolence and paranoia cohabit in a twisted mind. Bad men trust no one because they know the treachery of which they themselves are capable.

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#26. 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.

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#27. People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

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#28. 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.

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#29. Evil men often easy to mislead, because they have spent so long deceiving that they no longer recognise the truth and mistake deseption for it.

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#30. suffer lasting psychological trauma. Still, I don't think it's a good idea to subject her to an interrogation tonight." "Not an interrogation,

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#31. Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

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#32. 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.

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#33. What has been is no more. Change has come.

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#34. A swelled head is just a result of nature's frenzied efforts to fill a vacuum.

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#35. One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.

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#36. What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

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#37. Are human reactions what they've always been, or has a century or more of movies influenced our response to every stimulus

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#38. 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.

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#39. The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality.

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#40. should know. Though

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#41. In this world, Evil works through countless surrogates. Its name is Legion. But Good works through surrogates, as well, and they are legion, too.

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#42. 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.

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#43. She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

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#44. 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.

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#45. 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.

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#46. 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.

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#47. Humanity is a parade of fools and I'm at the front, twirling a baton

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#48. 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.

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#49. If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

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#50. Perhaps you have always known everything important but will need a lifetime to discover what you know.

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#51. Some people like to hear themselves talk, but I like to hear myself silent.

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

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#53. 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.

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#54. The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

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#55. 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.

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#56. 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.

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#57. 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.

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#58. SHE WAS A GIRL WHO OPENED DOORS, NOT BECAUSE she wanted to open them, but because she knew that she needed to open them.

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#59. 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?

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#60. 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

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#61. 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.

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#62. 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.

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#63. 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.

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#64. 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.

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#65. 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.

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#66. 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

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#67. I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

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#68. 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.

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#69. 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.

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#70. 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.

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#71. 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.

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#72. You don't find life by fleeing from it.

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#73. All of us are cowards at some time in our lives...

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#74. 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.

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#75. If you let the news spoil your appetite, there wouldn't be a day you could eat.

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#76. 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.

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#77. Being alone can be good. It is easy to find peace alone. But sometimes...being alone is a kind of death.

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#78. 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.

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#79. 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.

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#80. 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

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#81. 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.

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#82. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

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#83. 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.

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#84. I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

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#85. 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.

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#86. Some dreams matter. Most don't. Often it can be hard to know which might be which.

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#87. 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.

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#88. 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.

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#89. 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.

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#90. The best weapons against evil were hope, optimism, determination, and faith.

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#91. 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.

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#92. 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?

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#93. 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 ...

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#94. 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.

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#95. My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.

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#96. Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

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#97. She watched a serrated formation of brown pelicans slice the sky and leave no scar.

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#98. 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.

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#99. 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.

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#100. 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.

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