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Dean Koontz Inspirational Quotes (297)

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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.
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Rub-a-dub-dub. Cerebrum in a tub.
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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.
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You won't find the truth of life in morbidity, only in hope.
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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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I receive about 10,000 letters a year from readers, and in the first year after a book is published, perhaps 5,000 letters will deal specifically with that piece of work.
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Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself.
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The destruction that barbarians leave behind has a grim fascination, doesn't it? We're reminded how thin is the veneer of civilization.
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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.
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mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.
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It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet
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Anger is a violent emotion, vindictive, and as dangerous to he who is driven by it as to anyone on whom it is turned.
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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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I believe in the possibility of miracles but, more to the point, I believe in our need for them.
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Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.
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I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.
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There's evil in the world, all right. Being aware of it makes you a realist, not a paranoid.
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We can approach belief from an intellectual path, but in the end, God must be taken on faith. Proofs are for things of this world, things in time and of time, not beyond time.
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The hatred of truth is the taproot of violence.
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That was interesting, riding in the trunk, Milo said, but I wouldn't want to do it again.
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton.
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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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Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.
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