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. Dean Koontz More Quotes by Dean Koontz More Quotes From Dean Koontz Life's mysterious, strange, and full of wonders - and only a fool withdraws from it willingly and lets it pass him by. Dean Koontz mysterious fool strange If Edgar Allan Poe were alive today, his agent would be constantly slapping him upside the head with tightly rolled copies of his brilliant short stories and novelettes, yelling, 'Full-length novels, you moron! Pay attention! What's the matter with you -- are you shooting heroin or something? Write for the market! No more of this midlength 'Fall of the House of Usher' crap Dean Koontz yelling writing fall That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one’s death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning. Dean Koontz good-friend flames memories Your sense of responsibility to others can never be excessive. Dean Koontz responsibility-to-others sense-of-responsibility responsibility She lived for others, her heart tuned to their anguish and their needs. Dean Koontz anguish heart needs Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted. Dean Koontz information messages thinking A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse Dean Koontz lions easy order Alliteration seems to offend people. Dean Koontz alliteration seems people Inaction counted as a choice. Dean Koontz inaction choices Are you prepared for the first wound? Dean Koontz prepared wounds firsts Guilt is a tireless horse. Grief ages into sorrow, and sorrow is an enduring rider. Dean Koontz horse sorrow grief I know it's hard being a single mother baby, he said, but we're talking fundamentals here. Homemade cookies are one of the best parts of christmas. It's an absolute fundamental. Dean Koontz mother talking baby A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness Dean Koontz imagination mind might Or maybe they were just doing it for fun. A lark. Their religion is tolerant of extreme forms of recreation. Boys will be boys, after all, and sociopathic boys will be sociopathic. Dean Koontz larks fun boys After once having made the mistake of watching television news, I had worried for a while about an asteroid hitting the earth and wiping out human civilization. The anchorwoman had said it was not merely possible but probable. At the end of the report, she smiled. Dean Koontz wiping-out mistake civilization The things we worry about the most are never the things that bite us. The sharpest teeth always take their nip of us when we are looking the other way. Dean Koontz teeth worry way The broom wasn't as comforting as a flamethrower would have been, but it was better than a mop and certainly more threatening than a feather duster. Dean Koontz brooms threatening comforting I'll sit in the park and feed the pigeons for a while.' We don't have pigeons.' Then I'll feed the pterodactyls. Dean Koontz pigeons parks I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death. Dean Koontz certainty doe The wives of Spartans are the secret pillars of the world."--Odd Thomas Dean Koontz wife secret world
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