She was plagued again by the feeling that the room in which she stood, the earth on which it was built, and the universe in which it turned were as insubstantial as smoke, subject to sudden change.

Dean Koontz

Tags: lightning



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Winny didn't know what he would do without his books, except probably go berserk and start killing people and making ashtrays out of their skulls even though he didn't smoke and never would.

Dean Koontz

Tags: reading books reading-humor



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She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

Dean Koontz


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A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

Dean Koontz

Tags: fear misanthropy social-isolation hermit misanthrope agoraphobia



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Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Dean Koontz

Tags: misanthropy simple-life philosophy-of-life instructions-for-survival



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The world has too few modest fry cooks and far too many self-important professors.

Dean Koontz

Tags: professors fry-cooks



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Considering that the modern and contemporary literature taught in most universities is largely bleak, cynical, morbid, pessimistic, misanthropic dogmatism, often written by suicidal types who sooner or later kill themselves with alcohol or drugs, or shotguns, Professor Takuda was a remarkably cheerful man.

Dean Koontz

Tags: literature



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Well, Mr Thomas, while I'm in favour of education, I couldn't in good conscience recommend a university career in anything but the hard sciences. As a working environment, the rest of academia is a sewer of irrationality, hate mongering, envy, and self-interest. I'm getting out the moment I earn my twenty-five-year pension package, and then I'm going to write novels...

Dean Koontz

Tags: novels



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I can explain why I have to do what I'm about to do, but I'm acutely aware that an explanation is not a righteous justification. What's bad is bad even if necessary.

Dean Koontz

Tags: morality justification



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Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

Dean Koontz

Tags: art writing



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