Quotes From "Odd Apocalypse" By Dean Koontz

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Do not doubt the beauty of your heart. Dean Koontz
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Knowing the names of things is a way to pay respect to the beauty of the world... Dean Koontz
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...the more we learn, the more we realize how much we don't know. Dean Koontz
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We make so many of our own troubles, from mere mishaps to disasters, by dwelling on the possibility of them until the possible becomes inevitable. Dean Koontz
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All death matters."" Only to the living. Dean Koontz
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The dead can be even more frustrating to deal with than are many of the living, which is astonishing when you consider it's the living who run the Department of Motor Vehicles. Dean Koontz
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I never plan for the future but wander into it with a smile on my face, hope in my heart, and the hair up on the nape of my neck. Dean Koontz
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If there's nothing to learn because we know it all, what's the challenge? Why would the effort matter? What would be the point? - Odd Thomas Dean Koontz
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Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive. Dean Koontz
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In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life. Dean Koontz
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In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, we are beyond mercy. Dean Koontz
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I was like a thought slipping through the fissures... Dean Koontz
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Were you always such a snake, " the child asked, "or did you grow into what you are? Dean Koontz
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There is in me a darkness that, by darkness challenged, will rise up and have its way. Dean Koontz
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We are all the walking wounded in a world that is a war zone. Everything we love will be taken from us, everything, last of all life itself. Yet everywhere I look, I find great beauty in this battlefield, and grace and the promise of joy. Dean Koontz
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Virtue is imaginative. Evil, repetitive. Dean Koontz
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The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert. Dean Koontz
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When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, "I don't hate you." She called me an effing liar and said, "Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate."" I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost. Dean Koontz
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There will be something very wrong with any place we go. Dean Koontz
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I am amazed that there are still nights when I sleep well. Dean Koontz
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To spare Cloyce's victims further indignities to their memory, I must be a scourge. To prevent others from perhaps being infected by Cloyce's depravity by watching him at work, I must be a scourge. To prevent time management technology from falling into the hands of authorities who, if not already corrupt, would be corrupted by it, I must be a scourge. Scourges aren't heroes. I had never imagined myself to be a hero, but never had I imagined I would be this. Scourges transgress against social and sacred order. A scourge went into darker territory than that. A scourge was not compelled to kill by mental imbalance or emotional confusion or selfish desire. A scourge made a carefully reasoned decision to kill in numbers that exceeded what was absolutely necessary to ensure self-preservation and the defense of the innocent. Even if he killed for the right reason, he was in rebellion against social order and commanding authority. Who scourges will be scourged. In fulfilling this dark role in Roseland, I would bring about my own death. Yet I knew I would not retreat from my decision. . Dean Koontz
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Ambition and stupidity are a dangerous combination. Dean Koontz
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...up to no good–and pleased about it. Dean Koontz
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Ah, sir, that's just mean. She's not a Victoria's Secret model. but she's pretty in her way. Dean Koontz
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What we fear too much we often bring to pass. Dean Koontz
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Quick now, here, now, always, as if we are in a condition of complete simplicity... Dean Koontz
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On a small table beside his chair were other haphazardly stacked volumes by such poets as Emerson, Whitman, and Wallace Stevens, a dangerous crew to let into your head. Dean Koontz
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I am learning my way toward something that will make sense of my life, and I learn by going where I have to go, with whatever companions I am graced. Dean Koontz
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...your life is yours to shape as you wish with free will... Dean Koontz