Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 8

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• Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

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  Epic, Order, Shoes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.205, Bantam

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• Dare we linger, dare we skate? Dare we laugh or celebrate, knowing we may strain the ice? Preserve the ice at any price?

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  Ice, Knowing, Laughing

  Dean Koontz, “Dragon Tears”

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• Books are packaged dreams.

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  Dream, Book

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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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• 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.

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  Love, Betrayal, Kindness

  Dean Koontz (2001). “Dark Rivers of the Heart/Intensity/Sole Survivor: Three Complete Novels by Dean Koontz”

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• No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Sloth, Degrees

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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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.

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  Book, People, Purpose

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.34, Bantam

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• Perseverance is impossible if we don't permit ourselves to hope.

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  Encouraging, Perseverance, Impossible

  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.294, Bantam

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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.

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  Thinking, Information, Messages

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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.

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  Lying, Order, Waiting

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.26, Bantam

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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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• Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

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  Soul, Mind, Cookies

  Dean Koontz (2007). “False Memory”, p.70, Bantam

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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.

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  Love, Pain, Writing

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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.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Skills

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• Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

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  Love, Life, Sex

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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.

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  Soul, Opinion, Speak

  Dean Koontz (2013). “Innocence (with bonus short story Wilderness): A Novel”, p.171, Bantam

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• The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.

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  Hatred, Violence, Truth Is

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• Too many dogs continue to be abused and abandond - one is too many - and people continue to kill people for money and envy and no reason at all. 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 recognised, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved

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  Dog, Loneliness, Hero

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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.

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  Believe, Life Is Short, Trying

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• In our age, self-indulgence and self-destruction, rather than self-sacrifice, are the foundations for new heroic myths.

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  Hero, Sacrifice, Self

  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.607, Bantam

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• It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in acidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occassional bad-hair day. I still possessed both legs and both eyes, and even my hair looked all right when I rose that Wednesday morning in late January. If I returned to bed sixteen hours later, having lost all my hair but nothing else, I would consider the day a triumph. Even minus a few teeth, I'd call it a triumph.

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  Morning, Eye, Journey

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• Human cruelty and treachery surpassed all understanding. There were no answers. Only excuses.

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  Understanding, Answers, Excuse

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.292, Bantam

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• Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

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  Doe, Generations, Vomiting

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Odd Thomas: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.132, Bantam

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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.

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  Confused, Destiny, Humanity

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Winter Moon: A Novel”, p.169, Bantam

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• Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a plant that I had passed a thousand time and never given a second thought to. But the dog is curious. And the dog stops and wants to smell this and smell that. And the dog makes you look and focus and take the time.

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  Dog, Smell, Focus

  "The Rumpus Interview With Dean Koontz". Interview with Ben Pfeiffer, therumpus.net. December 21, 2015.

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