Dean Koontz Quotes

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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

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  Dog, Kindness, Selfish

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.107, Bantam

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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.

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  Ordinary, Enchanted, Said

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• Intuition is seeing with the soul.

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  Soul, Intuition, Instinct

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• Some people misunderstand evil and believe it will relent, and because their misplaced hope inspires dark hearts to dream darker dreams, they are the fathers and mothers of all wars. Evil does not relent; it must be defeated. And even when defeated, uprooted, and purified by fire, evil leaves behind a seed that will one day germinate and, in blooming, again be misunderstood.

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  Mother, Dream, Father

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Odd Apocalypse: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.65, Bantam

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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.

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  Humanity, Free Will, Given

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.559, Bantam

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• Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

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  Light, Have Faith, Moments

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.134, Bantam

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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.

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  People, Way, Life Is

  Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.251, Bantam

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• Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.

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  True Friend, Fun, Sacrifice

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.63, Hachette UK

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• No one can tell you what your heart should feel.

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  Heart, Should, Feels

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.232, Bantam

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

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  Knows

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.590, Bantam

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• Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.

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  Mind, Midnight, Sometimes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.138, Bantam

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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.

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  Love, Thinking, Compassion

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• Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

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  Believe, Mean, Thinking

  Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.8, Bantam

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• No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.

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  Happiness, Choices, Happiness Is A Choice

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.317, Bantam

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• Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.

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  Stupid, Vigor, Given

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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.

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  Vocabulary, Going Away, Trying

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• Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited than the little people are to manage the little people's lives. They think they have the one true vision, the ability to solve all the moral dilemmas of the century. They prefer big government because that is the first step to totalitarianism, toward unquestioned rule by the elite. And of course they see themselves as the elite.

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  Running, Believe, Intelligent

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• The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.

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  Laughter, Giving, Laughing

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• Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

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  Cake, Funny Food, Sweet Tooth

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• Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

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  Dog, Prayer, Heart

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.80, Bantam

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• Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reigns.

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  Darkness, Reign, Worst

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Strange Highways”, p.174, Hachette UK

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• Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

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  Stars, Children, Twilight

  Dean Koontz (2004). “Midnight”, p.15, Penguin

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• Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.

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  Stars, Silly, Who I Am

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• Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

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  Loss, Doubt, Poison

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.265, Bantam

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• If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.

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  Dog, President, Would Be

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