Dean Koontz Short Quotes

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A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

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Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

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We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

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I see dead people. But, then by God, I do something about it!

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Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive.

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The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

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What doesn't quicken dies. That's an indisputable truth of life.

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Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

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Always, beneath every apparent chaos, order waits to be revealed.

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I have learned a great deal from novels. Some of it is even true.

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The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

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I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.

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Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have faith to see it.

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Every life is complicated, every mind a kingdom of unmapped mysteries.

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She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs.

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I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

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The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."—Odd Thomas

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We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

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Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.

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

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When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.

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A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

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I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

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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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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

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In an infinite universe, anything that could be imagined might somewhere exist.

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Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.

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I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

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Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider.

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Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

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