"The only reason I would write a sequel……" — Dean Koontz
"The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original."
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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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More Diminish Quotes
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When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish, the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.
— Bernard Berenson
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A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to…
— Fanny Burney
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If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the…
— William J. Clinton
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Envying another's beauty will diminish your own. But when you praise beauty in others your own beauty deepens.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Once our minds are 'tattooed' with negative thinking, our chances for long-term success diminish.
— John C. Maxwell
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These fiery trials are designed to make you stronger, but they have the potential to diminish or even destroy your…
— Neil L. Andersen
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred…
— Herbert Spencer
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Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.
— Mark Twain
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Convince your enemy that he will gain very little by attacking you; this will diminish his enthusiasm
— Sun Tzu
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Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to…
— Maya Angelou
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One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left…
— Sigmund Freud
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Never forget that the purpose for which a man lives is the improvement of the man himself, so that he…
— William E. Gladstone
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