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Want Quotes by Dean Koontz

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When we think about yearning, Dean Koontz’s voice often threads suspense with a human craving for more. This set pulls together his take on what drives us, offering a glimpse into the tension between fear and aspiration that fuels his storytelling.

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“The thing we want the most is always the thing we cannot have.”

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Pain is all I know." He murmured. "Peace is all I want

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“I wouldn’t want to eat any raw horse,”

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I can do what I need to do. I can get where I want to go, no matter how hard it is.

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That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.

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The world is a very complex and interesting place and that is what I really want my fiction to say: wake up…

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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different…

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“Besides, I can't get to where I want to go by conscious or unconscious suicide. I've got my strange little life to…

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Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with…

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Imagine that you are more than nothing. Evil made you, but you are no more evil than a child unborn. If you…

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I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go…

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Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us.…

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He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to…

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All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told…

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Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own…

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The problem with movies and books is they make evil look glamorous, exciting, when it's no such thing. It's boring and it's…

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There's lots of law these days, but not much justice. Celebrities murder their wives and go free. A mother kills her children,…

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It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn…

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Odd: I wish I could believe in reincarnation. Chief Porter: Not me. Once down the track is enough of a test. Pass…

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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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Another way to be awakened by the beauty and complexity of the word is to get a dog. Small Things like a…

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Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to…

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I need those nukes, the chief said. I need them, I need them right now. I don't want to be an enabler,…

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What sucks the worst is . . . this world was a gift to us, and we broke it, and part of…

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The biggest advice is being true to what you want to do. Don't worry if other people understand it or don't understand…

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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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“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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