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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.
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Recognizing the structure of your psychology doesn't mean that you can easily rebuild it.
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Blizzards, floods, volcanos, hurricanes, earthquakes: They fascinate because they nakedly reveal that Mother Nature, afflicted with bipolar disorder, is as likely to snuff us as she is to succor us.
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The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
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I thought of you as my guardian, Einstein… you taught me that I'm your guardian, too, that I'm Travis's guardian, and he is my guardian and yours. We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness. You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain, and dull.
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It's so damn hard to bloom… to change. Even when you want to change, want it more than anything in the world, it's hard. Desire to change isn't enough. Or desperation. Couldn't be done without… love.
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Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.
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The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
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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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Every human being has appetites difficult to control but far fewer have humility, gentleness, and an awareness of their weaknesses.
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The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way.
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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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We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.
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I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?
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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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This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.
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In the belly of Leviathan... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere.
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Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.
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Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.
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All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.
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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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What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.
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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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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.
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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Dean Koontz
Born:
July 9, 1945
(age 78)
Bio:
Dean Ray Koontz is an American author. His novels are broadly described as suspense thrillers, but also frequently incorporate elements of horror, fantasy, science fiction, mystery, and satire.
Known for:
Odd Thomas (2003)
Ashley Bell (2015)
Phantoms (1983)
The Husband (2006)
Fear Nothing (1998)
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