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Life, Stormy says, is not about how fast you run or even with what degree of grace. It's about perseverance, about staying on your feet and slogging forward no matter what. (Dean Koontz)
Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations. View quote
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The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another. View quote
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I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books. View quote
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Maybe when all was said and done, the imagination was the most powerful of all weapons. It was the imagination of the human race that had allowed it to dream of a life beyond cold caves and of a possible future in the stars. View quote
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I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. View quote
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Every book has some real life in it. I was never pursued by an evil twin clone, but everything else in MR. MURDER was pretty much out of my own life. View quote
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I really believe that everyone has a talent, ability, or skill that he can mine to support himself and to succeed in life. View quote
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In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance. View quote
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The brain acknowledged the approach of death while the heart stubbornly insisted upon immortality. View quote
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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next. (Dean Koontz)
Intuition is seeing with the soul. View quote
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Humanity is a parade of fools, and I am at the front of it, twirling a baton. View quote
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Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun. View quote
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Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always ready in the soul. View quote
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As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope. View quote
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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. View quote
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None of us can ever save himself; we are the instruments of one another's salvation, and only by the hope that we give to others do we lift ourselves out of the darkness into light. View quote
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In this world only the paranoid survive. View quote
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells. View quote
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Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. (Dean Koontz)
In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary. View quote
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses. View quote
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The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth. View quote
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I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. View quote
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