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Dean Koontz Quotes - Page 16

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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

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.

Discipline, Intellectual, Infinite

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.615, Bantam

Have fun, entertain yourself with your work, make yourself laugh and cry with your own stories, make yourself shiver in suspense along with your characters. If you can do that, then you will most likely find a large audience; but even if a large audience is never found, you'll have a happy life.

Fun, Character, Happy Life

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.

Movie, People, Mind

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

People, Goes On, Bears

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.270, Bantam

Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to lead. Leading it the best I can - that's how I buy the ticket to where I want to be.

Suicide, Want, Littles

Dean Koontz (2007). “Forever Odd: An Odd Thomas Novel”, p.87, Bantam

Shakespeare again. Once you let him into your head, he takes up tenancy and will not leave.

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.873, Bantam

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

Return, Failing, Desperation

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.422, Bantam

If wishes were filet mignon, we'd always eat well at dinner

Wish, Dinner, Wells

Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.139, Penguin

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.

Flower, Hands, Expectations

As an attorney, I assure you the law isn't a line engraved in marble, immovable and unchangeable through the centuries. Rather the law is like a string, fixed at both ends but with a great deal of play in it very loose, the line of the law so you can stretch it this way or that, rearrange the arc of it so you are nearly always short of blatant theft or cold-blooded murder safely on the right side. That's a daunting thing to realize but true.

Law, Play, Lines

"Watchers". Book by Dean Koontz, 1987.

mankind has no right to employ its genius in the creation of another intelligent species, then treat it like property. If we've come so far that we can create as God creates, then we have to learn to act with the justice and mercy of God.

Intelligent, Mercy Of God, Justice

Dean Koontz (2008). “Watchers”, p.245, Penguin

In this uncertain space between birth and death, especially here at the end of the world in Moonlight Bay, we need hope as surely as we need food and water, love and friendship. The trick, however, is to remember that hope is a perilous thing, that it's not a steel and concrete bridge across the void between this moment and a brighter future. Hope is no stronger than tremulous beads of dew strung on a filament of spider web, and it alone can't long support the terrible weight of an anguished mind and a tortured heart.

Heart, Bridges, Space

Dean Koontz (2007). “Seize the Night: A Novel”, p.47, Bantam

I'm either a mutant or a cripple, and I refuse to be a cripple. People pity cripples, but they're afraid of mutants [...] Fear implies respect.

People, Mutants, Pity

Dean Koontz (2007). “One Door Away from Heaven: A Novel”, p.5, Bantam

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

Cake

"Life Expectancy". Book by Dean Koontz, 2004.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.

Real, People, World

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.147, Bantam

Experts must read the patterns and judge their usefulness as evidence. Under any of numerous pressures, an expert may wish to misread a pattern or even to alter it. Americans had a touching trust in "experts".

Judging, Touching, Wish

Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.147, Bantam

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

Risk, Tears, Swallowing

Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.425, Bantam

Is rule of thumb in writing game: if story requires many long descriptions of smells so vile that will give reader nausea, is not likely to find publisher.

Writing, Games, Smell

The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional, or intellectual perfection. The species was doomed to imperfection; it thrashed forever in despair or denial of that fact.

Emotional, Perfection, Forever

Dean Koontz (2007). “Dark Rivers of the Heart: A Novel”, p.194, Bantam

He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or would ever care enough about him to really find out what he was like and what his dreams were. He was an outcast, a creature somehow vastly different from all other people, an object of scorn and derision, an outsider, secretly loathed and ridiculed by everyone who met him, even by those few who professed to love him.

Dream, People, Different

Britney: You in a fight? Odd: No, It's an employment-related fork wound.

Fighting, Employment, Odd

Every day we make our way through a moral forest, along pathways ever branching. Often we get lost. When the array of paths before us is so perplexing that we can't make a choice, or won't, we can hope that we will be given a sign to guide us. A reliance on signs, however, can lead to the evasion of all moral obligations, and thus earn a terrible judgment.

Choices, Way, Path

Dean Koontz (2016). “The Complete Odd Thomas 8-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd, Saint Odd”, p.534, Bantam

When things are baffling they usually don't unbaffle themselves.There's just, you know, a certain amount of baffling stuff that always, like, really baffles you, and I've found that it's best to accept bafflement whenever it comes along, and then move on.

Life, Moving, Confusion

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Stars, Thinking, Impossible

Dean Koontz, Kevin J. Anderson (2007). “Frankenstein: Prodigal Son: A Novel”, p.350, Bantam

We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

Love, Kindness, Generosity

Dean Koontz (2012). “Fear Nothing”, p.368, Hachette UK

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