Dean Koontz: Cytaty po angielsku

Dean Koontz jest pisarz amerykański. Cytaty po angielsku.
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“When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.”

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Dean Koontz książka One Door Away from Heaven

Źródło: One Door Away from Heaven

“Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.”

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Dean Koontz książka One Door Away from Heaven

Geneva Davis; chapter 1, p. 8
Źródło: One Door Away from Heaven (2001)
Kontekst: Change isn't easy, Micky. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think. Changing the way you think means changing what you believe about life. That's hard, sweetie. When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

“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.”

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Dean Koontz książka Forever Odd

Źródło: Forever Odd

“You can con God and get away with it, Granny said, if you do so with charm and wit. If you live your life with imagination and verve, God will play along just to see what outrageously entertaining thing you'll do next.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Wariant: .. the most identifying trait of humanity is our ability to be inhumane to one another.
Źródło: Odd Thomas

“Darkness dwells within even the best of us. In the worst of us, darkness not only dwells but reins.”

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Dean Koontz książka Strange Highways

Źródło: Strange Highways

“Fate isn’t one straight road…there are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.”

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Dean Koontz książka Dead and Alive

Źródło: Dead and Alive

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

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Dean Koontz książka Prędkość

Źródło: Velocity

“Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it-those are the real heros.”

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Dean Koontz

Źródło: Winter Moon

“Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told.”

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Dean Koontz

Źródło: Innocence

“Loss is the hardest thing, I said. But it's also the teacher that's the most difficult to ignore.”

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Dean Koontz książka Odd Hours

Źródło: Odd Hours

“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.”

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“Alliteration seems to offend people.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“I am twenty years old. To a world-wise adult, I am little more than a child. To any child, however, I am old enough to be distrusted, to be excluded forever from the magical community of the short and beardless.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“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.”

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Dean Koontz Odd Thomas

Źródło: Odd Thomas

“Hunches [are] just messages from the subconscious, which [is] thinking furiously all the time and processing information we have not consciously noted.”

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Dean Koontz książka Intensity

Źródło: Intensity