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Dean Koontz Quotes

«Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: darker, midnight, moonless
«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.»
«Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie. Sometimes black humor is the only kind we can summon, but even dark laughter can sustain.»
«Human beings can always be relied upon to exert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.»
«A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: fanatic, nut
«Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.' If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers.»
«One of the greatest sorrows of human exisence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: misery, sorrows
«Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: damn, give a damn, readily
«Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise ever focused, so that we remember what we otherwise spend most of our lives forgetting: that our nature and purpose is, more than anything else, to love and to make love, to take joy from the beauty of the world, to live with an awareness that the future is not as real a place for any of us as are the present and the past.»
«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.»
Author: Dean Koontz | Keywords: arrogant, generosity

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