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Dean Koontz Inspirational Quotes (297)

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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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The retriever took each bit of meat from his master's hand with a delicacy almost equal to that of a hummingbird sipping sugar water from a garden feeder, and when it was all gone, he gazed up at Dusty with an adoration that could not have been much less than the love with which the angels regard God.
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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.
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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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?
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...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.
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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.
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Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.
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Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.
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Intuition is seeing with the soul.
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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.
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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.
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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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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.
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There's still a fascination with somebody who can write at book length, no matter what the book is.
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As much as I've produced it looks to people like I must have written quickly, but it isn't that - because I put in in a sixty- or seventy-hour week.
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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.
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One man's idea of perfect order is another man's chaos.
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I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.
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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.
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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.
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Nearly everything that was fun, of course, was also a little dangerous: riding roller coasters, skydiving, gambling, sex.
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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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