Dean Koontz Quotes

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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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People couldn't bear to go on living if they faced every cold truth about themselves.

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Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

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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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I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

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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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All I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.... The problem is finding smile-inducing evil people, because the evil are the most humorless, though in the movies they frequently get some of the best lines.

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All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.

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Of course, I don't know everything. Considering the infinite amount of knowledge that one could acquire in a virtually innumerable array of intellectual disciplines, it's probably more accurate to say that I don't know anything.

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You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

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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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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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The world howls for social justice, but when it comes to social responsibility, you sometimes cant even hear crickets chirping.

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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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That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

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Of all the things we can feel with our minds and bodies, severe pain is the purest, for it drives everything else from our awareness and focuses us as perfectly as we can ever be focused.

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We are not, however, a species that can choose the baggage with which we must travel. In spite of our best intentions, we always find that we have brought along a suitcase or two of darkness and despair.

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If your work is deathwork, one weapon is not enough, just as a plumber would not answer an urgent service call with a single wrench.

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My life would be constrained by the horror and fierce rage that my appearance inspired, but I would know peace as well as fear, tenderness as well as brutality, and even love in a time of cruelty.

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The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.

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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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No one can genuinely love the world, which is too large to love entire. To love all the world at once is pretense or dangerous self-delusion. Loving the world is like loving the idea of love, which is perilous because, feeling virtuous about this grand affection, you are freed from the struggles and the duties that come with loving people as individuals.

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Those who wish to punish the current and future generations for the inequities of a generation long gone, and who equate justice with revenge, are the most dangerous people in the world.

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