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Friendship Quotes by Dean Koontz

24 Friendship quotes by Dean Koontz

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Koontz’s take on camaraderie often sits beside the edge of a thriller, making the bonds feel both comforting and urgent. With twenty‑four snippets you get a taste of his ability to mix heart with a hint of danger. Perfect for fans who like a little pulse in their reflections.

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The mockery of friends is affectionate, and inoculates against foolishness.

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Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

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If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

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“she loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.”

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“You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren't easy to find.”

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The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

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Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.

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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from…

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In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book.…

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“Friendship does not depend on conversation. Sometimes the most important communication is not mouth to ear, but heart to heart.”

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“Sympathy is a nobler feeling than pity. But if sympathy is the principal reason that one person is drawn to another, there…

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

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“When she had delight in her heart, her face transcended all her suffering, whereupon the scars and the deformed features and the…

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Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask…

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Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is…

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Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage…

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“For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But…

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Every world has dogs or their equivalent, creatures that thrive on companionship, creatures that are of a high order of intelligence although…

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If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread,…

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“After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and…

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“...if one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends. How else would one learn to…

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“The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that…

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Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask…

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That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame…

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“This kind of derangement is emblematic of humankind. Grave faults are said to be only eccentricities, and imperfections are routinely celebrated as mere differences…

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“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing…

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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

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What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together…

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“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two additional powers…

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“I stopped keeping an eye out for Santa Claus on Christmas Eve because, when I was five, my mother told me that Santa was…

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“To one degree or another, I have been happy most of my life, in part because the world has infinite charms if you wish…

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“This life is just a bootcamp, to test and toughen us, to prepare us for the next life of service in some great adventure.…

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“A madman should have a madman’s laugh, not the warm chuckle of a favorite uncle.”

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“Anger was a reliable defense, but one that allowed no chance of final victory. Anger was a medicine but never a cure, briefly numbing…

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“Nothing is predetermined for us, and yet all our possible choices are threads in the vast weave of things, so that we have free…

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“In fact, time teaches us that the musical score of life oscillates between that of Psycho and that of The Sound of Music, with…

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“Some will accuse me of being judgmental. Thank you. And proud of it. You wreck a kid's life, I have no pity for you.”

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“Waiting is one of the things that humans beings cannot do well, though it is one of the essential things we must do successfully…

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“Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice…

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