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Dean Koontz Inspirational Quotes (297)

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We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away.
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Only time conquers time and its burdens.
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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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Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.
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Death came, Death went, but Commerce flowed Eternal.
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In this world only the paranoid survive.
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
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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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What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?
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Don't tell me what's necessary, you presumptupus pup. What's necessary is whatever I wish to do, regardless of how unnecessary it might be.
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...at it's best fiction is medicine.
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Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.
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I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.
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She says what holds their marriage together is that she feels too damn sorry for him to ask for a divorce.
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I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.
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here in the summer desert, winter found my blood
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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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Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.
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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is time.
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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.
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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!
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