Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 12

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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.

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  Fate, Different, Path

  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.149, Bantam

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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.

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  Two, Choices, Presidential

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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.

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  Use, Literature, Levels

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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.

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  Thinking, Goal, Literature

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• I can love October in September. September doesn’t care.

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  Care, October, September

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.11, Bantam

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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.

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  Trying, World, Want

  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.560, Bantam

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• Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

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  Doe, God Exists, Knows

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• its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

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  Knows, Rare Things, Core

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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.

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  Book, Humor, Mean

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

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  Horror, Said, Millions

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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.

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  Literature, Majority, Dean

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

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• Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

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  Courage, Giving, Desire

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

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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.

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  People, Devil, Needs

  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.46, Bantam

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• A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

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  Believe, Nuts, Literature

  "Lightning". Novel by Dean Koontz (Part II, Chapter 6.4), 1988.

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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.

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  Good Day, Average, Please Me

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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.

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  Thinking, Watches, Literature

  "Contemplating Evil: An Interview with Dean Koontz". Interview with Nick Gillespie & Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• If you write with passion in your own style, you will make a place for yourself

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  Passion, Writing, Style

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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.

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  Memories, Goes On, Way

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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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.

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  Hands, Pieces, Literature

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.193, Bantam

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• Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.

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  Home, Perfect

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.472, Bantam

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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.

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  Thinking, Evil People, Literature

  "Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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• The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but until and if it destroyed itself, it harbored the potential to become nobler, to take responsibility for its actions, to live and let live, and to earn the stewardship of the earth.

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  Cheating, Lying, Ignorance

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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.

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  People, Needs, Hammers

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.368, Bantam

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• It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment that he commits the slightest error that reveals his trickery. Those in the audience are embarrassed to have been so easily astonished, and they blame the performer for their gullibility.

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  Believe, Errors, Wizardry

  Dean Koontz (2014). “Odd Thomas: You Are Destined to Be Together Forever (Short Story)”, p.154, Bantam

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• She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

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  Fear, Heart, Hair

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.230, Penguin

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