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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 13

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Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes. The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.

Eye, People, World

They said there was no rest for the wicked. In fact, there was rest neither for the virtuous nor the wicked, nor for guys like Billy, who were uncommitted regarding the whole idea of virtue versus wickedness and who were just trying to do their jobs.

Jobs, Ideas, Guy

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.

Fear, Ignorance, Eye

Not funny ha ha, funny weird.

"Criminal Minds: Hostage". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2016.

I've not seen in my lifetime any politician who is a heroic figure. The manipulation that all politicians use on one level or another is so transparent.

Use, Literature, Levels

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

Thinking, Goal, Literature

I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing.

Writing, Pages, Revising

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.

Thinking, Evil People, Literature

"Contemplating Evil". Interview with Nick Gillespie and Lisa Snell, reason.com. November 1996.

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.

Good Day, Average, Please Me

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

Believe, Nuts, Literature

"Lightning". Novel by Dean Koontz (Part II, Chapter 6.4), 1988.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

Courage, Giving, Desire

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.50, Bantam

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

Fear, My Future, Countrymen

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam

Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve, she had decided that instinct was, in fact, the quiet voice of God. Prayers did receive replies, but you had to listen closely and believe in the answer. At twelve, she wrote in her diary: "God doesn't shout; He whispers, and in the whisper is the way.

Prayer, Believe, Night

Dean Koontz (2007). “Intensity: A Novel”, p.74, Bantam

Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him.

Literature, Majority, Dean

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.85, Bantam

Language can't describe reality. Literature has no stable reference, no real meaning. Each reader's interpretation is equally valid, more important than the author's intention. In fact, nothing in life has meaning. Reality is subjective. Values and truths are subjective. Life itself is a kind of illusion. Blah, blah, blah, let's have another scotch.

Real, Scotch, Important

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

Beautiful, Grace, World

Dean Koontz (2007). “Life Expectancy”, p.3, Bantam

Truth is always stranger than fiction. We craft fiction to match our sense of how things ought to be, but truth cannot be crafted. Truth is, and truth has a way of astonishing us to our knees. Reminding us, that the universe does not exist to fulfill our expectations. Because we are imperfect beings who are self-blinded to the truth of the world’s stunning complexity, we shave reality to paper thin theories and ideologies that we can easily grasp – and we call them truths. But the truth of a sea in all it’s immensity cannot be embodied in one tidewashed pebble.

Reality, Self, Sea

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

Dog, Children, Rules To Live By

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.78, Bantam

For some, the past is a chain, each day a link, raveling backward to one ringbolt or another, in one dark place or another, and tomorrow is a slave to yesterday.

Dark, Past, Yesterday

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Darkest Evening of the Year: A Novel”, p.10, Bantam

Even if God exists, does He know that you do?

Doe, God Exists, Knows

What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of the deal is that if we want things right, we have to fix it ourselves. But we can't. We try, but we can't.

Trying, World, Want

Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.560, Bantam

we must seize life because we never know how much of it remains for us, that faith is the antidote to despair and that laughter is the music of faith.

Laughter, Despair, Antidote

Dean Koontz (2009). “Relentless: A Novel”, p.150, Bantam

There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children, and the news people on TV say she's the victim and want you to send money to her lawyers. When everything's upside down like this, what fool just sits back and thinks justice will prevail?

Mother, Children, Thinking

Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.466, Hachette UK

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

Mind, Louisiana, Swamps

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Taking: A Novel”, p.180, Bantam

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

Heart, People, Broken

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.1, Bantam

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