"But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility……" — Dean Koontz
"But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but, instead, would spawn a comforting self-pity."
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Dean Koontz
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
Dean Koontz has 374 quotes on this site.
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I've a long list of things I don't know how I've done, but I've done them. In the end, it's…
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Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.
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Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a…
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The snow did not even whisper its way to earth, but seemed to salt the night with silence.
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We are not born to wait. We are born to do.
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Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
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No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.
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The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our…
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Perhaps extreme danger strips us of all pretenses, all ambitions, all confusions, focusing us more intensely than we are otherwise…
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We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity,…
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Home is the first refuge from - and last defense against - the disappointments and the terrors of life.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Learn as much by writing as by reading.
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If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will…
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Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't…
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If you'd rather live surrounded by pristine objects than by the traces of happy memories, stay focused on tangible things.…
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Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.
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Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing…
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No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
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