"We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that……" — Dean Koontz
"We yearn for tomorrow and the progress that it represents. But yesterday was once tomorrow, and where was progress in it? Or we yearn for yesterday, for what was or what might have been. But as we are yearning, the present is becoming the past, so the past is nothing but our yearning for second chances."
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Dean Koontz
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374 Quotes by Dean Koontz
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