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01c. 1945 AD

These days, all I ask of Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another. This is a big request to make of busy Fate, who has billions of lives to keep in constant turmoil.

Dean Koontz / quote

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02c. 1945 AD

You can change the road you take, but sometimes it can bend back to lead you straight to that same stubborn fate.

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03c. 1945 AD

Fate isn't a straight road," I said, becoming the oracle that earlier in the day I had declined to be for her. "There are forks in it, many different routes to different ends. We have the free will to choose the path.

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04c. 1945 AD

These days, all I ask Fate is that the people she hurls into my life, whether they are evil or good, or morally bipolar, should be amusing to one degree or another.

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05c. 1945 AD

There is no fate, only free will, and we were just in the way of other people's free will when they decided to do the Devil's work.

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06c. 1945 AD

Evil was coming. I wondered whose face it would be wearing.

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07c. 1945 AD

Evil travels the world in anonymity, its presence revealed only by the periodic consequences of its desires...

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08c. 1945 AD

Small-town boy meets big-time evil.

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09c. 1945 AD

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10c. 1945 AD

Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the future, but everything has meaning to one degree or another, for the world is an ever-weaving tapestry from which no thread can be pulled without destroying the integrity of the cloth. The breadth of Creation makes it impossible for us to step back far enough to see the story that the tapestry tells; the intricacy of it, from the macro to the micro to the subatomic, make sit impossible for us to comprehend the megatrillions of connections between the threads in just one small fragment of the whole.

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11c. 1945 AD

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

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12c. 1945 AD

Evil never dies. It just changes faces.

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13c. 1945 AD

We need to laugh at the irrationality of evil, for in doing so we deny evil's power over us, diminish its influence in the world, and tarnish the allure it has for some people.

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14c. 1945 AD

Keep in mind the roots of violence: Lust, envy, anger, avarice, and vengeance...the taproot...the killer's ultimate and truest motivation...is the hatred of truth...the hatred of truth is a vice. From it comes pride and an enthusiasm for disorder.

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15c. 1945 AD

The world needed a little Evil, so Good had something to compare itself to, but you couldn't let it think it had the right-of-way on the road and an invitation to dinner.

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16c. 1945 AD

Either the gates of hell had opened, or Tom had lost his mind; for there could be nothing like this entity outside the precincts of the damned, except in the fevered fantasies of a raving paranoid psychopath

Dean Koontz / quote

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17c. 1945 AD

Laser beams slid around them, spurts of light sinking through the darkness, eventually touching the stars or lighting the water for a moment on their death ride to the murky bottom.

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18c. 1945 AD

Hope lies in action

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19c. 1945 AD

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.

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20c. 1945 AD

We ate food that wasn't healthy. We let dirty dishes stack up in the sink. We slept too much.We talked about everything, everything but the slaughter at the mall. Our past, our future. We planned. We dreamed.

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21c. 1945 AD

Your this beautiful ship that will sail a long way, and I'd only be your anchor""A ship without an anchor can never be at rest

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22c. 1945 AD

The uniqueness of every soul is not a theme that our current culture, obsessed with group identities, cares to assert.

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23c. 1945 AD

When Victoria told me how intensely she hated me, I kept the Beretta aimed at her face, but heard myself say, "I don't hate you."She called me an effing liar and said, "Hate makes the world go around. Envy, lust and hate.""I stopped hating anyone the day when I realized hating can't restore to me anything that's lost.

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24c. 1945 AD

But the line between moral behavior and narcissistic self-righteousness is thin and difficult to discern

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